On Sunday night, 44,000 women gathered with @WinWithBLKWomen to support Kamala Harris, and raised over $1 million. It’s our turn to show up. So that’s what we’re doing.
Hold this date and time.
Registration link to follow. Link to donate in bio.
I’m Lanon Baccam, a combat veteran who was born and raised in rural Iowa. I’m running for Congress in Iowa’s 3rd district.
Join me: https://t.co/wISRlVCo7A
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is anyone of you.”
–Audre Lorde
There is a public hearing at the State Capitol on Tuesday at 9:30am for HSB 255 which would significantly restrict abortion access in #Iowa. Register your opposition (con) against the bill here: https://t.co/ce6fQJLuhL #ialegis#AbortionIsHealthcare#MaternalHealth
In other words, the psychological is physical.
Racism is not just killing Black people’s life opportunities and limiting our societal advancement.
It is doing more than just concentrating us into areas of extreme resource deprivation and asking us to fight each other for scraps of food, housing and jobs.
Racism is directly killing our bodies.
Too many people don’t understand this.
“In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information... what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).” https://t.co/MmkRMjpy6q
Iowa mothers who are Black experience even more deadly rates of disparity compared to national stats. The Iowa Black Doula Collective is working to change this. Support the org’s critical work here: https://t.co/sViUTt0mok
New data from California shows how bad the infant mortality rate is in the US, and the role that race and income play in the crisis.
Spoilers: It's exactly what you think it is
Without a contract, today I join 1,100 of my colleagues in walking out. We're asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms today and stand with us on the digital picket line. Read local news. Listen to public radio. Break your Wordle streak. https://t.co/umJkQN1qVV
“To be a Black public figure who chooses to be honest about white supremacy in this country is dangerous business. And there is no starker example of that than Tiffany Cross…” https://t.co/qD7pldnE3W
Ras was one of two Black candidates initially vying to be Iowa's Democratic nominee.
He has openly talked on multiple occasions about not being able to even get in the same room as some of the most prominent and affluent donors in Iowa.