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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? The second wasn’t fully accomplished: to understand how gender dimorphism, in which too often women are dominated or considered of lesser value, became the cultural norm. Come on, admit it.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Your partner whispers reminders of your beauty , your strength , your power.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

We must begin to replace the vast architecture of private supports that women construct around their loved ones with a robust health and human services infrastructure capable of supporting the needs of all families. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no.