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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
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- Women's History Month
Advocate empowers youth in Atlanta neighborhood where SPLC plans new office
KaCey Venning spent four years in school classrooms before she realized that the best way to serve her students was by resigning. The former public school teacher is the co-founder and executive director of Helping Empower Youth (HEY!), a youth development program based in Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood – an area with one of the…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Women's History Month
Event honors enslaved women subjected to gynecological experiments in Alabama
On a quiet street in Alabama’s capital, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy stand 15 feet tall, composed of pieces of mixed metal welded together. They represent the enslaved Black women and girls whom art activist Michelle Browder calls the “Mothers of Gynecology.” These girls and others were involuntarily subjected to painful experimental surgeries, without the use…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Women's History Month
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‘Day of Reckoning’: Nikole Hannah-Jones among speakers at Alabama conference on Black women’s health disparities
Against the grim backdrop of substandard medical care and racial biases that make Black women across the country nearly three times as likely to die from a maternal cause as white women, leading obstetricians, gynecologists, doulas, midwives and racial justice advocates are meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, this week in a bid to tackle the persistent…
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- Women's History Month
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Women’s History Month: Just as in the civil rights movement, Black women are leading the way in today’s social justice activism
Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, was established by Congress to recognize and celebrate the contributions of women over the course of American history. Typically during this month, the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), where I am the director, produces a website feature and social media postings dedicated to honoring women who have shaped the…
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