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Barack Obama & Other Black Leaders React to Roe v. Wade Overturning [UPDATE]
Condemnation shows the SCOTUS ruling is out of step with most of the country
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Pledges $500k for Abortion Access
The Democratic official joins other city and state leaders who anticipate of Roe vs. Wade being overturned.
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Biden Administration Moves To Roll Back ‘Conscience’ Rule For Health Care Workers
The Department of Health and Human Services could propose the change as soon as the end of the month.
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California to Pay Reparations to Victims of Forced Sterilization in State Prisons
The nation known as the ‘land of the free’ once had a sanctioned eugenics program that inspired Nazi Germany. Imagine that.
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The Wounded Explaining the Wound: The Forced Sterilization of Women of Color Is No Small Matter
With things happening so fast in the world around us, the news cycle feels like a whirlwind moving from story to story overnight. Even reports as disturbing as allegations of mass hysterectomies in ICE detention camps disappeared from the national conversation as quickly as they came—though it could be argued that that aligns with a…
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Ending the Hyde Amendment Is Essential to Achieving Justice for Black Women
As a Black woman, I’ve spent much of this year watching my own people suffer. Black women are grieving the loss of their fathers, mothers, and children in mounting numbers because of COVID-19. Black women are facing catastrophic job losses due to the pandemic. And we continue to watch our fathers, sons, brothers and daughters…