- 1. PSA: Trigger Laws Illegalize Abortion in Texas and Tennessee, More States To Follow Suit
- (Feminism)
- ... Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri, have made abortion almost completely illegal (in rare instances is it considered legal). In order to fight back and fight ...
- Created on 26 August 2022
- 2. The US Is a Dangerous Place to Give Birth—And Things Just Got More Deadly
- (Feminism)
- ... Before Roe, the effects of this flimsy support for women’s health was evident in the numbers. Data from the CDC shows that some of the states with the highest rates of maternal mortality are Louisiana, ...
- Created on 12 July 2022
- 3. Watching "Tall Girl 2" While Black: Just How Much Of A Struggle Is Being Tall, Anyway
- (Movies)
- ... girl to integrate her elementary school in Louisiana in 1960. Bridges was 6 years old as adults and children alike threw things at her and called her names as she walked into the building. Jodi’s high ...
- Created on 02 March 2022
- 4. Mutual Aid To The Rescue: Check Out These Seven Pro-Choice Organizations Providing Resources in the Midst of Texas' Near-Total Abortion Ban
- (Feminism)
- ... of Abortion Funds, working to pay for Texans' travel to abortion clinics near eastern and northern Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. The Texas House Bill 2, a 2013 ban on abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization, ...
- Created on 09 September 2021
- 5. UPDATE: These Lady Motorcyclists Rule New Orleans, and Are Now the Faces of Rihanna's Latest Savage X Fenty Collection ...
- (Feminism)
- ... are an all Black-female motorcycle crew based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and are front and center in this latest campaign. No stranger to shimmer and spectacle, the cyclists often show up to their events ...
- Created on 05 August 2021
- 6. I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Zaila Avant-garde Is the First African-American to Win the Spelling Bee--And She's Also A Basketball Prodigy ...
- (Entertainment)
- ... Louisianan, who gave her a shout out as he hosted the ESPYs over the weekend. "Sorry Drew Brees, you're old news. ... I'm talking about the Spelling Bee champ." @AnthonyMackie salutes New Orleans legend ...
- Created on 12 July 2021
- 7. COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
- (Living)
- ... throughout the Covid-19 epidemic,” including those running Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma. View this post on Instagram ...
- Created on 23 February 2021
- 8. Lucille Bridges, Mother Of Civil Rights Movement Icon, Passes Away at 86
- (General)
- ... than we think. Lucille was 86 and died at her home in Louisiana. On November 14, 1960, with the escort of federal marshals, Lucille walked her daughter to school, braving vitriol and abuse from white ...
- Created on 12 November 2020
- 9. New Statue Honoring "Mother of Feminism" Mary Wollstonecraft Is, You Guessed It, Naked ...
- (Feminism)
- “Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women... Yet they are told, at the same time, that they are only like angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, ...
- Created on 10 November 2020
- 10. What Louisiana's New Abortion Restrictions Mean For America ...
- (Feminism)
- Earlier this week, abortion rights were on the ballot in Louisiana and Colorado. In Louisiana, voters passed an amendment to the state constitution adding clarifying language that the state does not ...
- Created on 06 November 2020
- 11. Ted Cruz Thinks the Abortion Pill Should be Banned and, Apparently, Pregnancy is a Walk in the Park
- (Feminism)
- On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz co-authored a letter to the FDA requesting the removal of the abortion pill, otherwise known as RU-46 or Mifeprex, from the U.S. market. Cruz asked Commissioner Stephen ...
- Created on 03 September 2020
- 12. Mother Nature Disagrees: Confederate Statue Brought Down By Hurricane Laura
- (Living)
- ... The hurricane didn’t spare the Lake Charles region of Louisiana. Alongside a chemical fire that erupted on the outskirts of the city, the fate of a Confederate monument was decided by the storm. The ...
- Created on 28 August 2020
- 13. The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
- (Feminism)
- ... Georgia, there are still antiquated laws in Georgia like the fact that women can be fired for a period leak.Georgia ratified February 20, 1970. Louisiana In 1896, New Orleanian Kate Gordon listened ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
- 14. Morgan Jerkins Explores and Reclaims Her Roots In "Wandering In Strange Lands
- (Books)
- ... had chosen to forget—“can be found in people you have yet to encounter and places where you have not yet traveled.” So she heads to Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, where she’s met with a shock. ...
- Created on 20 July 2020
- 15. The Supreme Court Just Struck Down A Louisiana Abortion Law
- (Feminism)
- On June 29, the Supreme Court overturned a law that restricts abortion access in Louisiana. The Los Angeles Times reported that the law was expected to close all but one of the abortion providers in ...
- Created on 29 June 2020
- 16. Here Are 4 Important Supreme Court Decisions Made This Year & 2 We're Still Waiting O
- (Living)
- ... was a 2014 Louisiana law that required doctors at abortion clinics have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Opponents of the law argued that the enforcement would only leave one doctor at one clinic ...
- Created on 29 June 2020
- 17. Let's Stop Naming American Schools After Confederate
- (Living)
- ... Vernon Parish, Louisiana, is home to one school named after Leonidas Polk and four schools named after Robert E. Lee. Ugh. How about renaming one after Jewel Prestage, the first Black woman to earn a ...
- Created on 24 June 2020
- 18. Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Fetal Heartbeat Bill, ACLU and Planned Parenthood Fight Back
- (Feminism)
- ... abortion. In 2019, eight separate states attempted to pass regulations as well as full-blown bans that focused on fetal heartbeats and gestational periods. These states include Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, ...
- Created on 22 June 2020
- 19. How A Woman Helped Deliver Over 500,000 Masks To Healthcare Workers: BUST Interview
- (Living)
- ... and Louisiana and the surrounding states to help, but no one had masks and everyone's coming close to each other. They had a couple of COVID cases. One of their employees wrote into Mask Match the week ...
- Created on 29 May 2020
- 20. Taraji P. Henson's Organization Is Providing Free Virtual Therapy For Black Communitie
- (Living)
- ... at the numbers is startling: in Illinois Black people only account for 14% of the population, yet account for 30% of cases and 41% of deaths in the state. In Louisiana, Black people make up 33% of the ...
- Created on 16 April 2020
