Attacks on immigrants are an issue not only for the immigrant rights community; these attacks take aim at the core principles of the groups working to advance human and civil rights, equal opportunity, human rights and dignity, healthcare for all, and more.
Like most six-year-olds, little bits of information about the world leave my son asking, “Why? And why not??” I didn’t want to answer: "why are people celebrating the fact that this man is dead?"
With the recent tsunami of anti-choice bills in state legislatures, media voices have stoked the anxiety by painting pro-choice litigators as gun shy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. Each year, that abuse costs the United States health-care system an estimated $8.3 billion.
I wrote this poem because I had grown tired of people not seeing me beyond the color of my skin or my "otherness." I see it being played out on a larger scale as in African-American's women's right to choose as exemplified in this article that talks about Anti-Abortion Billboards.
House Members are using a backdoor route to get their way on “forcible” rape using patently false claims about the law. It’s not the “longstanding policy” of the government to exclude victims of statutory rape. It’s “longstanding policy” to include them.
