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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? So that was one path that was available. The second was economics.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. The event was convened by Contra el diluvio, an organization dedicated to revealing the consequences of climate change to the public.