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MLK50: Justice Through Journalism

On poverty, power and public policy

Category: Reproductive Health

Being black and pregnant during a pandemic

by Maya McKenzie July 2, 2020October 5, 2020

Pregnancy is stressful. Being pregnant during a pandemic is even more stressful. But being Black and pregnant during a pandemic and an uprising is devastating. As a Black woman who is 39 weeks pregnant, I am terrified. I fear for the health of my unborn baby girl, my toddler son, my children’s father, my parents […]

Boo! The year’s scariest laws, proposals and policies

by Michael Jackson October 30, 2019October 11, 2020

5 ways the Tennessee legislature screwed women last session

by Rebekah Marie Yearout August 28, 2019October 5, 2020

The U.S. is stingier with child care and maternity leave than rest of the world

by Joya Misra May 10, 2019October 5, 2020

‘When you control women’s reproductive choices, you control their possibilities’

by Wendi C. Thomas September 10, 2018October 5, 2020

Living Wage Week: Thistle and Bee offers skills and escape from local sex economy

by Melonee Gaines March 8, 2018October 5, 2020

Why there are—still—no children here

by Deborah Douglas January 4, 2018October 5, 2020

Nothing protects black women from dying in pregnancy and childbirth

by Nina Martin and Renee Montagne December 14, 2017October 5, 2020

Black women disproportionately suffer complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

by Adriana Gallardo December 12, 2017October 5, 2020

Thistle and Bee offers dignity, livable wage to women leaving local sex economy

by Melonee Gaines December 7, 2017October 5, 2020

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