From McKinney to HB 2: How Texas Lawmakers and Law Enforcement Disregard Women’s Lives From McKinney to HB 2: How Texas Lawmakers and Law Enforcement Disregard Women’s Lives
With both the McKinney pool fiasco and the unrelenting attack on abortion rights, the state has put the safety of women and girls at risk.
Jun 11, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
How Texas Politicians Just Made Finding a Lump in Your Breast Even Scarier How Texas Politicians Just Made Finding a Lump in Your Breast Even Scarier
State legislators have passed a budget that prioritizes anti-choice politics over access to life-saving cancer screenings.
Jun 4, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
#SayHerName Shows Black Women Face Police Violence, Too—and Pregnancy and Motherhood Are No Refuge #SayHerName Shows Black Women Face Police Violence, Too—and Pregnancy and Motherhood Are No Refuge
Today's national day of action hopes to draw attention to the lives of black women and girls lost to police violence.
May 21, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
Tennessee’s Abstinence-Based Sex-Ed Law Is Especially Bad for Black Students Tennessee’s Abstinence-Based Sex-Ed Law Is Especially Bad for Black Students
Memphis leads the nation in sexually transmitted infections, but its schools do little to keep students safe.
May 15, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women? Why Aren’t More Union Bosses Black Women?
Black women have been labor movement faithfuls and today scramble to be unionized. So why aren’t there more in labor leadership?
May 1, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
6 Scholars Who Are ‘Reimagining Black Politics’ 6 Scholars Who Are ‘Reimagining Black Politics’
There’s a world of urgent discourse beyond Dyson, West, and Gates.
Apr 30, 2015 / Dani McClain
Black Women Aren’t Just Secondary Casualties of Aggressive Policing Black Women Aren’t Just Secondary Casualties of Aggressive Policing
Prison and early deaths have taken 1.5 million black men from daily life. But the Rekia Boyd case shows that black women are also “missing.”
Apr 27, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
What Hillary Clinton Should Remember as She Courts Black Voters What Hillary Clinton Should Remember as She Courts Black Voters
During the 2008 primary, some of Clinton’s rhetoric left black voters cold. She’ll need to overcome those lingering concerns to win in 2016.
Apr 16, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain
What Can Stop the Ongoing Assault on Black Families? What Can Stop the Ongoing Assault on Black Families?
Through a shared desire to balance a critique of racism with a call for personal responsibility, liberals and conservatives have been united in looking with exasperation at the bla...
Apr 7, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Dani McClain
Dori Maynard and the Unfinished Business of Integrating the News Dori Maynard and the Unfinished Business of Integrating the News
Maynard was a champion of the idea that newsrooms needed to reflect the communities they covered and served.
Feb 26, 2015 / Blog / Dani McClain