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Black Childcare Providers Hit Hard by COVID-19

Kimberly Speller is still getting used to the quiet. Before the pandemic, on a typical day, she’d welcome a dozen or so boisterous 3 and 4-year-olds onto her porch and into her home in West…

by Malcolm BurnleySep 15, 2020

“You’re Basically Trying to Pick Your Poison”: Persistent Inequality Weighs on Black Mothers During COVID-19

On a bright Sunday afternoon in late August, 37-year-old Adrianne Williams tucked her son Josiah into his car seat. The energetic three-year-old was talkative that afternoon, excited for the weekly hour drive. Josiah’s latest obsession,…

by Jessica Washington Sep 4, 2020

Transgender and Trapped in Sex-Based Social Distancing

The day Yineth Layevska was finally able to change the name on her identity card, she felt reborn. When the 38-year-old indigenous transgender woman went out with her friends on the weekends in Panama City,…

by Marta MartinezAug 27, 2020

This article was published in partnership with Foreign Policy.

100 Years On, Black Women Are Still Fighting For Voting Rights

On a hot summer day in June, Jennifer Lumpkin and dozens of other organizers and volunteers rode through the streets of Cleveland, Ohio in a caravan of brightly colored Jeeps, handing out cloth masks and…

by Jessica Washington Aug 18, 2020

Why Women Are The Vanguard Of The Racial Equality Movement in the U.K.

Before protests demanding equality for Black people swept across the country, Aba Amoah was finishing her criminology degree, practicing Mandarin and planning her next trip abroad. Now, the 22-year-old is at the vanguard of the Black Lives…

by Amie Ferris-RotmanJul 29, 2020

This article was originally published in ELLE.

Author Brittney Cooper on Harnessing Rage, Right Now

“The critical mass we’ve seen suggests something is shifting in the ether.” Brittney Cooper, author of “Eloquent Rage.” The “angry black woman” stereotype has been picked apart and widely condemned in recent years. Michelle Obama…

by Malcolm BurnleyJun 20, 2020

This article was originally published in The New York Times.

Mothers of Black Americans Killed by Police Speak Out: ‘Nothing’s Changed’

In his final moments of life, George Floyd called for his mother as a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck in the street. Floyd’s death has sparked a now worldwide anti-racism movement, huge anti-police brutality…

by Khushbu ShahJun 11, 2020

This article was originally published in The Guardian.

Lose Income or Risk Your Child’s Health at Daycare? The Impossible Choice Low-Income Parents Face in Wisconsin

When 19-year old Milwaukee native Lenesha Barr discovered her six-month-old son, LaShaun, tested positive for coronavirus in April, she panicked. “There’s a risk that he might die from this,” says Barr, a cook at Wendy’s on unpaid…

by Jessica WashingtonJun 2, 2020

Pregnant Black Women Navigate Two Public Health Crises During COVID-19 in Milwaukee

Twenty-seven-year-old Shakiela Riley had her birth plan ready. In her first trimester, she found an OB-GYN, reached out to a doula for an in-person consultation, and took a handful of pregnancy classes. A Milwaukee native, Riley,…

by Jessica Washington May 7, 2020

Gender Activists in a March Dubbed Usawa Demand Action Against GBV, Youth Empowerment, Women Land Rights

A section of gender rights activists on Friday held a peaceful march in Nairobi to press for gender equality in the country. The march dubbed Usawa kicked-off at Uhuru Park’s freedom corner to President’s Uhuru Kenyatta’s office…

by Louise DonovanJan 17, 2020

This article was originally published in The Daily Nation.

Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Argument for a Border Wall

In 1997, Ima Matul, a seventeen-year-old living in rural Indonesia, was offered a job as a live-in housekeeper in Los Angeles. The person who recruited her promised that, if she worked for a few years,…

by Jenna KrajeskiFeb 5, 2019

This article was originally published in The New Yorker.

In Mosques Across Morocco, Women are Leading a Quiet Revolution

Not long ago, a woman confided a terrible secret to Zineb Hidra. Her husband, she whispered, was an alcoholic. He spent the young family’s money on liquor, and beat her when he was drunk. One…

by Lisa AbendJan 30, 2019

This article was originally published in ELLE.

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