Originally published by The 19th North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has a long history of attacking influential women in personal and often vulgar terms. But Robinson has reserved particular vitriol for Black women in positions of power, with many of his social media postings invoking misogyny, racism, homophobia and transphobia. Experts and advocates […]
Originally published by The 19th WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden doubled down on his support for care workers, family caregivers and advocates on Tuesday, recommitting to previous promises to bring back the child tax credit, increase child care funding and bolster staffing in nursing homes. “Care workers represent the best of who we are in
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Originally published by The 19th Countless times, Kenda Sutton-El, a Virginia doula, has witnessed her Black pregnant clients being dismissed or ignored by clinicians. One woman was told by doctors that swelling, pain and warmth in her leg was normal, despite warning the clinicians that she had a history of blood clots. Sutton-El urged her
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Originally published by The 19th Lincoln University’s national alumni association is objecting to the school’s decision to keep John Moseley as president after a Black woman administrator who accused him of bullying took her own life earlier this year. The alumni association said in a letter that it was issuing a statement of “no-confidence” in
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Originally published by The 19th Twenty-one percent of Black trans, nonbinary and questioning youth have made a suicide attempt in the last year, nearly half said they felt unsafe at school, and 64 percent said they had encountered transphobia, according to two recent reports that advocates say should serve as a call to action for
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Originally published by The 19th Republicans who are pushing for more restrictive immigration policy ahead of a pivotal election year continue to lean on an old strategy in their appeal to voters: broadly framing immigrant men as dangerous next to imagery of young White women victims. In 2015 it was Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old woman
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Shefali Luthra | Originally published by The 19th CVS and Walgreens will start dispensing mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion, in stores this month. The news was first reported by The New York Times. It comes more than a year after both retail pharmacy chains, the nation’s two largest, said they
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Amanda Becker | Originally published by The 19th OAKLAND & SAN FRANCISCO — When Barbara Lee was a student at the all-women Mills College in the early 1970s working toward a psychology degree, a class assignment presented her with a dilemma. The course required students to get involved in a 1972 presidential primary campaign. Lee
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Amanda Becker, Darreonna Davis | Originally published by The 19th Senate Democrats on Tuesday highlighted their plan to protect IVF, warning their Republican colleagues they will need to decide by Wednesday whether to block a bill that would preserve access to assisted reproductive technologies. “I warned that red states would come for IVF — and
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Nadra Nittle | Originally published by The 19th President Joe Biden is slated to announce Wednesday during his fundraising trip to Los Angeles that his administration will cancel another $1.2 billion in student loan debt — this time for about 153,000 borrowers. All of them have been approved for the shortened repayment period benefit under
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