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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1912, John Whitridge Williams, a professor of obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Medical Education and the Midwife Problem in the United States.” It is time that community-based midwifery care be recentered in our communities.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

53 Second, to create a lower-bound estimate for the intensive reintegrative support that many women provide for family members returning from prison, we can draw on cost estimates associated with providing professional case management for returning prisoners. 56 This burden lands disproportionately on Black women. billion ($40,138,541,763).

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. There really is a progressive climate politics under construction right now.