[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78dwrkKS1k&ab_channel=ChiomaOkparaNG[/embed] “2023 edition of the International Day of the Girl Child came with a difference as Rotary Club of Lagos chose two public schools in the metropolis for her girl child empowerment project. HERCONOMY put its weight behind it.”
(WASHINGTON) — Former union leader and Democratic insider Laphonza Butler was sworn in as the newest member of the Senate on Tuesday, replacing California Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death and becoming only the third Black female senator in history.Butler was appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, just two days after Feinstein died…
Over the past decade, The Women’s Health Awareness (WHA) Community Engagement Program has organized an annual conference for women living in Durham, North Carolina, and the surrounding areas. This FREE event provides health and environmental health education, screenings, advocacy, and services to attending participants. Issues covered in the conference often change annually and are typically…
OWH is creating a national competition to identify existing innovative programs that address human trafficking prevention (e.g., at the primary, secondary, and/or tertiary levels) among women and girls in the United States. The goal of this competition is to identify and award existing programs that demonstrate effectiveness in preventing human trafficking and/or improving health outcomes…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8uANLdARj8&ab_channel=wocomoHUMANITY[/embed] In southwestern Guinea Bissau there are some islands where a very special people live, the Bissago. What is it that makes them so special? It is not the fact of living in balance and harmony with the spectacular nature that surrounds them, taking from the land or the sea only what they need to…
A year ago, the patients in the waiting area at the Alabama Women’s Center on Sparkman Drive in Huntsville were separated into two rooms. In one, the staff put people whose abortion procedures had already begun through taking a dose of misoprostol. In the other were the ten or 15 who had come for their…
Mazaher is an ensemble in which women play a leading role.The musicians of Mazaher, Umm Sameh, Umm Hassan, Nour el Sabah are among the last remaining Zar practitioners in Egypt. The music is inspired by the three different styles musical styles of the Zar tradition practiced in Egypt. One of the African dimensions of Egypt,…
This is a drawing I did back in 2004. This year I expanded it beyond the face and neck. It is my tribute to Marsha P. Johnson. I know I could never thank her enough. Source: Woman of Color, Marsha P. Johnson by nefertaueret | Redbubble
Detroit, Michigan -Wayne State Law School – December 6, 2022Alternatives To Policing – live and virtual event0:00 Welcome1:44 Jeffrey Edison reads “Come Just…
Detroit, Michigan -Wayne State Law School – December 6, 2022 Alternatives To Policing – live and virtual event 0:00 Welcome 1:44 Jeffrey Edison reads “Come Justice” by Dr. Aneb Kgositsile 4:27 Julie Hurwitz introduces the event and panelists 10:20 Erin Keith presentation “Alternatives to Policing” 23:59 Rashida Tlaib 31:24 Andrea Ritchie 40:25 Stephanie Chang 51:21…
NEW YORK CITY — A jury in a civil trial held in lower Manhattan found that former President Donald Trump sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s, and defamed her after she went public about the incident in 2019, in that he…
