Health Care

August 28, 2013

The news had not been posted for two hours before the brouhaha began on Facebook. Yesterday, myself and two of my comrades in the movement to shift breastfeeding culture in the black community, officially announced August 25-31st—the last week of National Breastfeeding Awareness Month—as Black...

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Kimberly Seals Allers

Politics & Policy Health Care

August 28, 2013

Emergency Rooms and Lack of insurance create a cycle of poverty for the poorest Americans and disparately African Americans. Last week, when former U.S. Senator and current President of the Heritage Foundation , Jim DeMint , confidently stood in front of crowds of Americans touting the benefits and...

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Angelique Roche

Paid Family Leave Immigration Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care Blog Carnivals

August 28, 2013

This blog carnival was updated twice on Thursday, August 29th, 2013. Introduction by the members of the MomsRising Education Fund Board of Directors: Ai-jen Poo , Executive Director for National Domestic Workers Alliance Barbara Arnwine , President & Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee...

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The members of the MomsRising Education Fund Board of Directors

Health Care

August 27, 2013

As the daughter of two parents with limited English language proficiency, I am part of the dual-lingual generation (in my case Spanglish) that straddles the fine line between child, translator, and teacher to their parents. I hated this role when I was a child, often wishing that I could just be a...

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Jeannina Perez

Health Care

August 21, 2013

The idea to write a song about breastfeeding was conceived at a regional peer counselor conference back in 2011. It was during a group activity in which we were asked to come up with a creative way to address a common barrier to breastfeeding. My table’s topic was breastfeeding in public. It was...

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TaNefer Lumukanda

Environmental Health Health Care

August 12, 2013

What's hiding in the fragrances of top brand-name cleaners? You have a right to know--and SC Johnson should be telling you instead of keeping toxic secrets.

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Cassidy Randall

Immigration Health Care

August 6, 2013

This week, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) launches its fourth annual Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice. With the support of more than 85 organizations, including the partnership of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ) and the Colorado...

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Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas

Health Care

August 6, 2013

On August 14, the Rio Arriba Community Health Council will hold All Things Medicaid, our first ever Twitter Town Hall. Some of my readers know that I went to Netroots Nation this year to learn how to put together a Twitter Town Hall to help my community, which is tucked away in the Rocky Mountains...

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Lauren Reichelt

Health Care

August 6, 2013

It seems fitting to open National Breastfeeding Month with a focus on peer counseling and mother-to-mother support. Next to the mother-baby bond, one of the most critical relationships for sustaining breastfeeding can be a close connection between a woman who knows and has experience breastfeeding...

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Diana N. Derige

Health Care

August 6, 2013

Read the original post here at the Becoming Super Mommy blog Sixteen hours after he proposed to me, M awoke in an ambulance, rushing from his company softball game to the emergency room. What looked initially like a stroke turned out to be a seizure, caused by several masses in his brain. Six days...

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