When Can Black Women Stop Asking, ‘Ain’t I A Woman’?

November 6, 2015

I would like to know under what circumstances is it justifiable for a large adult male to physically assault an unarmed, teenage girl who is posing no physical threat to anyone?

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Black Women’s Fight for Motherhood

September 23, 2015

As we continue to discuss reproductive rights in this country, we cannot leave black women’s fight for motherhood out of the conversation. It is essential that barriers to motherhood be removed so that every woman regardless of race and socioeconomic status has the option to give birth to healthy children and raise them in a society where their lives are valued. That is reproductive justice that truly expands the meaning of “choice.”

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9to5 Op-Ed: From Prison to Public Service

June 16, 2015

Ban the Box initiatives are one step toward breaking the cycle of incarceration.

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Cosmopolitan: Why This Latina Is Fighting for Paid Leave in the Workplace

May 6, 2015

“Deciding to love, care for, and support your family shouldn’t mean choosing a life of poverty.”

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Huff Post: The Time for Equal Pay is Embarrassingly Overdue

April 27, 2015

Equal Pay Day came and went this week but pay equity is a stubborn problem that demands our attention beyond a symbolic day on the calendar. We must continue the dialogue.

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HuffPost: All Women, Including LGBT Women, Need Economic Security and Equal Opportunity Now

March 12, 2015

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) women are among those most at risk of economic insecurity, according to a new report released on Thursday, Paying an Unfair Price: The Financial Penalty for LGBT Women in America.

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Fox 6 Now: Area Industrial Union Workers Debate Right-to-Work Legislation

February 25, 2015

Watch 9to5 Wisconsin Chapter Director Martha De La Rosa speak about the Right to Work legislation.

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Huff Post: The Healthy Families Act: For Healthy Families, Healthy Businesses and a Healthy Economy

February 16, 2015

Senator Patty Murray (WA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT) re-introduced the Healthy Families Act (HFA) on the heels of another city victory in Philadelphia (February 12) – legislation called for by President Obama in his State of the Union address that will establish a much-needed national paid sick days standard.

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Media Coverage: Suburbs and the New American Poverty

January 12, 2015

9to5 member Reverend Harriet Bradley was featured in an article by the Atlantic. Rev Bradley discusses her experiences with the public transit system and the need for expansion.

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Huff Post: Activists Applaud Executive Action on Immigration, But It’s Not Enough

November 26, 2014

Marcela Cervantes, who was three years old when she came to Colorado, says about her family, “We came to Colorado from Leon, Guanajuato in Mexico. My grandmother brought us to the United States for a better life, so my mom could find better work and provide for us since she was a single mother with two kids and another on the way.”

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