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Celebrate Women’s Equality Day – Support Equal Pay Today! 27 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
On this Women’s Equality Day – the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote – I’m struck by all the ways in which women have yet to attain equality. Also, because this August ...
Mami would put her two cents in about your seguro de salud if she knew about it… 27 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
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 te...
Fifty Years On: Toward a Politics of Inclusivity 27 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
My 5 year-old son and I have had two conversations about the police — or “la policia,” as we call them – already this week. In the first, he declared to me that “all police are not bad.” That’s part...
Black Girl Proud 27 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
I knew from the beginning that I was a black girl and I was proud. I have my mother to thank for that. She taught me and my sister to be proud of being black. My parents filled our home with relics ...
Are All New Mothers Endowed Equally? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
There could be a lot of reasons I see everything through a race lens. I have a biracial son, for instance, and I know I’m going to get questions about why a whole lot of folks who look like his mother...
The First Annual Black Breastfeeding Week is here! (August 25th-31st) 25 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
Just when you thought the breastfeeding festivities were winding down, Black Breastfeeding Week is turning it up! This National Breastfeeding Month is going out with a bang as we launch the First Ann...
Women’s Equality Day — Not Quite Yet 25 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
August 26th marks the 93rd anniversary of suffrage, and we’ve indeed come a long way. When the suffragists finally got the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, it was after two generations of women had work...
Mother, May I….go to work? 24 Aug 2013 | 07:45 am
Every Augu st, Washington seems to empty out, and you can do the unthinkable - drive from one side of town to the other in 20 minutes flat. It takes longer to shop at the farmers’ market, selecting f...
My paid family leave story delivery! 23 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
A few days ago, here in Texas, a friend, her baby, and I delivered stories about the need for paid family leave to our U.S. Senators and I wanted to share a few pics and let you know how easy it was. ...
Help win paid family leave for all new parents! 23 Aug 2013 | 03:53 am
“Just days before I gave birth, my employer told me that he would not pay me for any of my maternity leave. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) did not apply because of the company size. “He made it....
