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Black maternal deaths and disparities increase in Mississippi

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Black, non-Hispanic women had a rate four times higher than white, non-Hispanic women, according to a report released Thursday by the state’s Department of Health.
Black maternal deaths and disparities increase in Mississippi by The Associated Press (NBC News)

Deaths from pregnancy complications have become more prevalent in Mississippi, and racial disparities in the health of those who give birth have widened.

The Mississippi Maternal Mortality Report shows that the maternal mortality rate increased by 8.8% between 2013‐2016 and 2017‐2019, with the latter period being the most recent one analyzed by researchers.Black, non-Hispanic women had a rate four times higher than white, non-Hispanic women. Meanwhile, the rate increased by 25% for Black women while falling 14% among…

Why It’s So Hard to Sue Doctors for Sexual Assault in Utah — ProPublica

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Stephanie Mateer launched a lawsuit against the Utah OB-GYN who she says sexually assaulted her during an exam. More than 90 other women joined her case with similar allegations. Credit: Bethany Baker/Salt Lake Tribune
Why It’s So Hard to Sue Doctors for Sexual Assault in Utah by an author (Pro Publica)

94 Women Allege That a Utah OB-GYN Sexually Assaulted Them. Their Case May Change Utah Law.

Filing their case, which alleged the Utah County doctor sexually assaulted them over the span of his 47-year career, was an empowering moment, Mateer said. But a judge threw out the lawsuit without even considering the merits, determining that because their alleged assailant is a doctor, the case must be governed by medical malpractice rules…

Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination

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Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination (Yahoo News)

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia.

Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States. But the movement has been getting pushback from some Hindu Americans who argue that such legislation maligns a specific community.Tensions within the community were visible at Seattle…

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How One Mom Fought Washington’s Special Education System — and Won — ProPublica

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How One Mom Fought Washington’s Special Education System — and Won by an author (propublica.org)

The state’s failure to monitor private special education schools forces parents to take extraordinary and sometimes expensive measures to get their kids into the best programs— or keep them out of the worst.

Cummings had read online reviews accusing the school’s staff of mistreating kids. She pleaded with the district officials to give ElijahKing a second chance, but it was too late. He had already been enrolled in the new school.Like other parents, Cummings was confronting a flaw in Washington’s special education system: It has failed to monitor…

Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can’t wait – Scalawag

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Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can’t wait by Da’Shaun Harrison (scalawagmagazine.org)

After jokes like ‘abolition can wait’ resounded in the wake of the Tory Lanez conviction, a course correction: ‘I don’t care to condemn folks who celebrate Tory’s conviction, I do care about abolition being misrepresented.

The violence of carcerality is two-fold, though, and this is why convictions are not “wins” so much as they are sometimes understood by some as means to an end. Megan must still live with the trauma of being shot, and Tory is not encouraged at all to be accountable for his abuse—not even after being…

Ron DeSantis requested the information of trans students who sought care at Florida’s public universities. Now students are planning a statewide walkout.

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Ron DeSantis requested the information of trans students who sought care at Florida’s public universities. Now students are planning a statewide walkout. (Yahoo News)

DeSantis told all public universities to hand over the medical data about all trans students. Students are calling it a breach of trans rights.

Students across Florida are planning a statewide walkout after Gov. Ron DeSantis requested all public universities comply in delivering data from student health services on transgender students who sought gender-affirming care at the institutions.DeSantis asked to see anonymized information of any student who has experienced gender dysphoria in the past five years. In addition, he…

Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to ‘go back to your own country’ in racist rant against new GOP presidential candidate

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Nikki Haley, Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to ‘go back to your own country’ in racist rant against new GOP presidential candidate (Yahoo News)

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is under fire for a racist tirade against new Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.

In an appearance on the “The Mark Simone Show” podcast this week, Coulter made several xenophobic comments about Haley, the former governor of South Carolina who was born in the U.S. to Indian immigrant parents. “Why don’t you go back to your own country?” Coulter said.Coulter, known for her racist and anti-immigrant stances, attacked India,…

Virginia governor blocks bill banning police from seeking menstrual histories

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Glenn Youngkin
Virginia governor blocks bill banning police from seeking menstrual histories (Yahoo News)

Glenn Youngkin essentially kills bill passed in Democratic-led state senate to ban search warrants for menstrual data on tracking apps

The Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, appears to have thwarted an attempt to stop law enforcement obtaining menstrual histories of women in the state.A bill passed in the Democratic-led state senate, and supported by half the chamber’s Republicans, would have banned search warrants for menstrual data stored in tracking apps on mobile phones or…

Men are from Mars & Women don’t understand, The grift of Gender Essentialism Khadija Mbowe

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