#Advocates

BlackWomenViews Media

blackwomenviews

Thread: It is #BlackMaternalHealthWeek so today I'm highlighting the legislative work on the Black maternal mortality crisis. Rep Alma Adams, Rep Lauren Underwood & Sen Kamala Harris launched the Black

Jonnelle Marte

Jonnelle

You can’t think about the labor market today (or any day really) without thinking about childcare. A thread: It’s important to know that even before the pandemic, more than half

Debi Rose

CMDebiRose

THREAD: @NYCMayor abruptly announced suspension of the Summer Youth Employment Program. This program has a decades-long history of uplifting impoverished youth who would otherwise struggle to access the labor market,

Adele Hite

ahhite

I would say "anger" motivates me as well. But not MY anger. I have in my heart & in my head the voices of the dozens of (mostly) women patients

Mitali Nagrecha

MitaliNagrecha

It is with great sadness that I share that Harvard shuttered @HLS_CJPP, where I worked over the last four years. I wanted to add two things about this closing, especially

Mai P. Hoang

maiphoang

Hello, new followers! My story about the protests happening at fruit packing houses in the Yakima Valley drew you here. Thank you for taking the time to read. Here are

David Gorski, MD, PhD

gorskon

It is truly depressing to see straw men arguments like this from academics. This is a straw man so massive that, were it to be set on fire, the crew

Franklin López

Franklin__Lopez

10 years ago today a decentralized crew of black clad freedom fighters thwarted a multi agency law enforcement apparatus with multi year infiltrations, and successfully laid siege to the financial

vanessa beeley

VanessaBeeley

Excerpts fm "Meet the world's most powerful doctor: Bill Gates". 1. "Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only

Bethany Lilly

bethanylilly

I had an earlier-than-I-like meeting today, so here's my hot take: we're in this mess about poor people not getting the Economic Impact Payments they're entitled to because the GOV

🌻 bright and special 🌻

highestwinds

Hey, I really love this solidarity & oppression =/= competition but I also want to use this to clarify something:I don't like this "learn from others" rhetoric when people haven't

Fiorella Isabel

Fiorella_im

No. This is largely one of the most dangerous analyses I’ve read. While I have clear criticisms of the campaign, it failed bc of its establishment led structure not for

Dr Andrew Thorne

athornehere

"I'm widening the bandwidth of how to be a woman" Alex Drummond https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/this-transgender-woman-has-a-full-beard-and-she-couldnt-be-hThis statement is a clear example of what this thread will explore, th

Miriam Krinsky

miriamkrinsky

1/ BREAKING NEWS: 76 CJ leaders - DAs, AGs, Chiefs & Sheriffs nationwide - filed an amicus brief urging inclusive & thoughtful reform of policing & challenging the flawed process

Brian Riedl 🧀

Brian_Riedl

Chartstorm: Today, CBO new released the new 30-year budget baseline. This rosy scenario assumes the 2017 tax cuts expire, no new tax/spending legislation, and low interest rates. Spending soars to

Rachit Kansal

rachit_kansal

While the Portal in RMI's Utility Transition Hub does a lot of things, it doesn't tell you what to think.This is what RMI has learned from the Portal's data Thread