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02/21/12

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in Ebony magazine. Many thanks to Dream Hampton for permission to re-publish. -E.B. That the Latin definition of triumvirate translates literally into "of three men" hasn't stopped my favorite triumvirate from being three Bessies: three very special...

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Environmental Health

02/21/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week’s findings of arsenic in organic brown rice syrup may be even more frightening to parents than last year’s discovery of the cancer-causing substance in apple juice . That’s because organic...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Open Flexible Work Health Care Paid Family Leave

02/21/12

In the 1970s, after it became illegal to discriminate based on race, some employers responded by imposing high school education requirements for blue-collar jobs. Today, employers who want to keep women out of “men’s jobs” do something similar: they wait until workers get pregnant, and then deny...

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Joan C. Williams

02/21/12

Sex, freedom, religion, women's rights, motherhood, birth control, and politics. It's a volatile mix. And right now there's a growing drumbeat of attacks on universal access to full coverage for crucial contraceptive health care that cannot be ignored: The Panel: You've likely seen the picture that...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

02/21/12

Though many of us may have personal experience with breastfeeding or know other women who do, we are kind of a growing minority. The latest Surgeon General's report on breastfeeding reports that we start out great with 58% of non-Latina black women and 80% of Latina women breastfeeding. By the time...

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

02/21/12

Black History Month for me is an emotionally mixed bag. On one hand I feel great pride in having a month dedicated to celebrating my heritage. It is during this time that the strong black voices of our past are remembered and uplifted. However, early childhood experiences with black history lessons...

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Erika Evans

02/21/12

Editor's Note: Throughout history, African American activists have fought to break down the barriers, including equal access to employment. In this current climate of economic instability and high unemployment, particularly in African American communities, the following is an important discussion...

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R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy

02/20/12

As a Black man, I realize that I had a great mom. After having taught many mothers in adult literacy and helping them pass the GED test, it is clear to me that what made my mom great was the fact that she was a warrior and that she trained herself to become a warrior. My mom was raised in...

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Rodney Ferguson

Environmental Health

02/20/12

Sometimes it’s hard to discern what that funny smell is in your car if you have kids, pets, or both. But the smell I’m most worried about when I get into a car is that “New Car Smell.” Some folks love it because it means your car is bright, shiny and new. Personally, I’m not too keen on it...

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Rebecca Meuninck

Immigration

02/20/12

Editor's Note: Black History is now! The following post by activist and author Kevin Powell is an example of his ongoing mission to uncover, expose and remedy the still prevalent racism faced by African Americans all over the country. Many civil and human rights were realized through the struggles...

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