Forty years after abortion became legal in the United States we are still wading in waters that run deep.
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The Story That’s Taken Ten Years to Tell
The shame that is associated with abortion and other difficult reproductive health decisions forces women to display an act of grieving whether they feel that way or not.
Policing African American Motherhood From Every Angle
In order to arrest, incarcerate, and institutionalize pregnant women for legal acts like “noncompliance” with a doctor’s orders, prosecutors distort state homicide, child abuse, and “feticide” laws
Happy 40th: 5 Ways Roe v. Wade is Undermined in MS
I have watched government officials, church leaders, anti-choice activists, and citizens fight tirelessly to criminalize abortion in my home state.
Life’s Unexpected Journeys
Following my termination, I was faced with explaining to my girls that it was going to be hard for us for awhile, but we had each other and we would stay strong.
Movement Network Leader Case Study: Eveline Shen
A spotlight on Forward Together’s Executive Director, recognized by the Management Assistance Group’s Network Leadership Innovations Lab as a visionary and exemplary movement leader.
Let’s Get It On
Oakland Youth’s New Vision for Sex Ed. Read the executive summary.
Michelle Obama Should Be Brave: Black Women and Reproductive Health Disparaties in the 2012 Presidential Election
Though choice is a significant part of gaining gender equality, I remain struck by how our First Lady, a black woman with black daughters, has yet to talk about reproductive health as broader than ”choice.”
I am Annika, I am All
The purpose of the poem is to give you a snapshot into how I see myself. I could have told you I see myself in every woman of the African Diaspora, but I decided to honor the names, the victories, the struggles and the relationship I have to the women listed below.
The Brutal Lust of the “Jigaboo” Fantasy “Mammyfied” Through Fashion
(Photo Credit: Style.com) It is my hope that at least, every Black woman who sees…