🌎Happy Earth Day! Today, let's recommit to protecting our planet for future generations. From fighting climate change to advocating for environmental justice, let's work together to ensure a cleaner, greener, and more equitable world for all. 🌱

On Earth Day, we recommit to our fight to build a healthier, safer, and more prosperous planet.

Today, I announced new federal actions to address staffing shortages in nursing homes and help raise pay for home health care workers.

Care workers provide our loved ones safety, dignity, and self-determination. They do God’s work caring for us – and we must care for them.

Pennsylvania! Your voice matters! Don’t miss out on shaping the future of your state. Every vote counts — now go out and vote!

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Rep. Barbara Lee On What She Admires About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & 'The Squad' & Other Progressives In Power: theroot.com/barbara-lee-on… #BlackWomenLead

Wealth for the typical Black family increased by 60 percent from 2019 to 2022, thanks in part to more Black women starting companies. The number of Black women-owned businesses grew by 32 percent from 2019 to 2021.

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'What we wanted to do that was just uniquely different was to … bring attention to Black women-led, community-based organizations that were already doing perinatal, maternal and reproductive health work...' said Black Mamas Matter Alliance co-founder Angela D. Aina.

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As SCAM GODDESS said after the racist onslaught following her iCarly casting, “We are talented. We work very hard, a lot of times much harder to get where we are and we don’t deserve to be punished for that.”

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To date, cannabis has been legalized in 24 U.S. states for recreational use. There are over 15,000 dispensaries around the country but Black people in the industry, and especially Black women, remain rare finds.

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Studies show that birth outcomes improve with the use of Black birthworkers, midwives, and doulas, as such California Black Women's Health Project (CABWHP) collaborates with other community-based organizations and Black birthworkers to support Black mothers.

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'The council is becoming kind of more reflective of the city and its population and I think we all bring different perspectives to the legislation that we debate about and that we pass,' said Milwaukee City Councilwoman Milele A. Coggs.

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Just last week, Senator Laphonza Butler launched a Youth Advisory Council, a group of 30 young people (ages 16 through 28) from around the state who will regularly meet with the senator. The idea is for the council to be a “sounding board” of sorts for Butler..
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Karie Stewart, for example, started Melanated Midwives three years ago to provide prenatal and postpartum care “for Black people, by Black people.” Melanated Group connects each patient with a Black midwife, doula, nurse, and social worker.
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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is warning anti-abortion advocates looking to ban an abortion drug to err on the side of caution because other popular drugs like Viagra could soon be on the chopping block.

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Kaleena Burkes has been named as the first-ever director of the Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls (MMBWG) Office.
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When twin sisters Joy and Jo Banner founded their non-profit, the The Descendants Project (Louisiana), in 2020, their goal was to protect the Black-founded “freetowns” in Louisiana’s river parishes.

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An event geared toward empowering young Black women was held in Riverhead Saturday afternoon.'It is so important for each one of us to do something about it and be the change you want to see,' said Tijuana Fulford, founder & executive director of The Butterfly Effect Project
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ALABAMA — It’s time to GOTV for Primary Runoff Elections! Polling sites are open from 7 a.m. CT to 7 p.m. CT

Happy Voting!

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The Black Women in Food organization, which was founded by the Dine Diaspora, is at it again and shouting from the rooftops about their honorees of the 7th Annual Black Women in Food (BWIF) Awards.

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