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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

Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Obstetrics is the dominant maternal health practice, while cultural narratives overshadow the Black herstory of midwifery with one that is white, wealthy, and/or alternative/“crunchy.”.

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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.

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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.