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Remembering (Black) History Through My Mother and Grandmother

February 28, 2011
Black History has always been a big part of my life. My father was a history professor and specialized in African and African-American History. So you know Black History Month was like Halloween or Easter for my family – a big deal and a real commemoration of past, present and future. I still...
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Cheryl Contee
Paid Sick Days

Help Us Tell Philadelphia City Council to Give ALL Workers a Chance to Earn Paid Sick Days.

February 28, 2011
Everyone gets sick – but not everyone has time to get better. In Philadelphia, two out of every five workers who become ill (or whose kids become ill) have a terrible “choice” to make between the job they need and the family they love-all because they don’t have the opportunity to earn paid sick...
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Kathleen Scully
Health Care

Abortion Legislation and the New Congress

February 27, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org The new Congress has immediately taken up several pieces of legislation which will restrict women's ability to obtain safe abortions in certain circumstances and change the current law in...
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Valerie Young
Immigration

Injustice dismantled: Welcome to a new world aborning

February 26, 2011
Fair-minded folks breathed sighs of relief and gratitude when President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the shamefully discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) will not be defended by the U.S. Department of Justice. At last, the Department of Justice lives up to...
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Sue Hyde
Paid Family Leave

No Free Rides? Empathy and Power in Wisconsin and California

February 25, 2011
There are some mysteries so dark, so staggeringly enigmatic, that the brain simply shuts down when forced to ponder them. Take, for example, the fact that we in the allegedly pro-family United States have almost no paid parental leave and very little open flexible work . As is so often pointed out...
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Smith Jeremy Adam
Paid Sick Days

Worked to Death

February 25, 2011
I was saddened to learn this week that a patient under my care had died. A man in his 50s who worked hard on his feet all day in the food service industry, he was afraid of losing his job if he came to the doctor. He missed countless appointments. The last time I saw him, he had been having chest...
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William Jordan, MD, MPH

Q&A With Dr. Cristina Rabadán-Diehl

February 25, 2011
On Friday I had the opportunity to join a group of Latina bloggers and interview Dr. Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, deputy director of the Office of Global Health for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) . Dr. Rabadán-Diehl, who has a degree in pharmacy from the Universidad Complutense of...
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Elisa Batista
Childcare & Early Education

The Little Warrior

February 25, 2011
This boy is a little warrior, but no one will acknowledge and respect who he is. Instead they want him to fit this mythical stereotype of the ethical, reasonable, self-controlled child. When he doesn’t fit this fantasy we decide he must be one of the psychologically disordered millions who require medication.
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Joe Newman
Open Flexible Work

Two Different Realities About Workplace Flexibility

February 25, 2011
When Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia wants to assess the brain development of young children, she often uses a task called the Day/Night Task. A child is shown a picture of night (a moon) and is supposed to say the opposite (day). Then he or she is shown a picture of day (a sun...
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Ellen Galinsky
Blog Carnivals

Black History Month and Love

February 25, 2011
When my daughter, Leah, was about five years old, a family friend gave her a doll as a birthday present. It was a gift that would lead to one of the worst arguments I ever had with my little girl. The doll was black, but it had long, straight hair. I did not want my daughter spending hours combing—...
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Enola Aird

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