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Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice Radio

March 19, 2018

Breaking Through is off this week, but we rounded up some of our favorite recent moments for this "Best Of" episode! This week we cover the intersection of art, culture, representation and politics with Jessica Byrd, a woman who was named the January Woman to Watch by Essence Magazine, “12 New...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Maternal Justice

March 19, 2018

Black women currently die from childbirth-related causes at 3-4x the rate of White women. This rate has not changed for almost six decades. Black mamas’ maternal mortality/morbidity is a continuation of ongoing systemic racism + oppression.

Tasmiha Khan

Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

March 9, 2018

Last night, the Washington legislature passed Initiative 940, a ballot measure brought by the De-Escalate Washington Coalition. Legislators also passed a clarifying bill, HB 3003, the result of months of deliberations between families affected by police violence, the De-Escalate Washington...

MomsRising

Maternal Justice

February 28, 2018

Tasmiha Khan

Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Immigration Maternal Justice

February 23, 2018

Did you know stories are one of our most powerful tools for changing hearts and minds? Stories are personal, they're real, and they really paint the picture of what's really happening on the ground. MomsRising has brought your stories around the importance of healthcare, early learning and food...

Karen Showalter

Maternal Justice

February 20, 2018

MomsRising, along with special guests Women’s Refugee Commission and Human Rights Watch holds a Tweetchat on the topic of W omen in Detention and Separation of Families.

Tasmiha Khan

Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

February 7, 2018

By: Alexandria Hill, MD Increasingly, women with cardiac disease are getting pregnant. We typically associate cardiac disease with people who have had a heart attack or open-heart surgery. But, as a physician and a cardiac patient myself, I think about the people born with heart abnormalities or...

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Food! Gun Safety Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Military Families MomsVote Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy Realistic & Fair Wages

January 30, 2018

"We were divided and conquered because the intersectional history that held our movements together had been ignored and forgotten."

Anita Sarah Jackson

Health Care Maternal Justice

January 5, 2018

In 2011, I made a decision to have a second child. I knew it would be risky. My first pregnancy was hard and I had hyperemesis gravidarum so bad that I was on bed rest my entire first trimester. I also have lupus and a weak immune system . Lastly, I was finally starting to make some traction in my...

ShaRhonda Knott Dawson

Environmental Health Maternal Justice Social & Emotional Development

January 3, 2018

Check out the late Grace Lee Boggs on how to foster solidarity and make it through this horrible time with our souls and hopefully our social fabric intact. Her words are only becoming more and more important. “I’ve come to believe that you cannot change any society unless you take responsibility...