Dear Voters: Keep Raising Your Voices
Mary-Pat Hector, CEO of student and youth activist organization RISE says we must “raise our voices for ownership of our civic life.”
Article Category: Just Saying
Salandra Benton Crowned MVP In The Battleground
By Gwen McKinney With pleasure and passion, Salandra Benton could easily claim the status as Florida’s MVP Queen for Maximizing Voter Participation. She breathes civic engagement. And if you know her and live in the state, it's highly unlikely that you are not on the Florida voter rolls. The Philadelphia native relocated to Ft. Lauderdale…
Black Women & Birthing People: We Inherit Joy, Too
by Venicia Gray | National Partnership for Women & Families As Elder Millennials (fabulous individuals born in the 1980s) are wont to do, I often find myself scrolling through my phone after my toddler has gone to bed. This act of delaying sleep to focus on things missed throughout the day, like free time, is…
Confronting Our Silent Killers
Meet our silent killers. They lurk. They creep. Like assailants in the dark, they can quickly swoop down and consume us in a deadly clutch. They are sinister and sometimes strike without warning. For Black women, they exact incalculable harm to our bodies, our families and our life chances.
Our Own Breast Advocate – Color Pink Ribbon Month With Vigilance
By Gwen McKinney The sinister 3-D contraption pinched and compressed my breast between two cold, plastic paddles. Part torture chamber, part lifesaver, this diagnostic mammography would deliver the dreaded message: Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS). It was early stage DCIS contained in my right breast and classified as “Stage 0.” Nonetheless, an ant farm of…
UAW Poised to Strike for Better Pay
By Levi Perrin This year continues to be a major change point for organized labor. If an agreement is not reached, the United Auto Workers Union plans a targeted strike of specific plants operated by Detroit’s three automakers. Of the 150,000 active workers represented by the UAW, a whopping 97% of them voted to authorize…
May It Please The Court—Sister Prosecutors Walk With Lady Justice
All eyes were on Fulton County, GA, where Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators were processed like any run-of-the-mill criminal defendants. The charges against the former president weren’t a targeted assault for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, just turning loose Lady Justice in a blindfold.
Unerased Labor Round-Up
Our labor—and the mental, physical and emotional energy it takes to manage it—deserves to be protected. Since the beginning of the pandemic, workers everywhere have begun to make demands to even the playing field by taking bold stances for people over profits.
Never Too Young — Sarah Davidson Led Little Rock Teens to March on Washington
Sarah Davidson of North Little Rock, AK was in fourth grade when the teenagers who would be dubbed “The Little Rock Nine” courageously integrated Central High School.
Black Women and the March on Washington — They Never Missed A Beat
The first Black woman Supreme Court Justice has been officially sworn in. Harvard-trained, Florida-native, Associate Justice Brown Jackson is the first Supreme Court Justice with experience as a public defender.