February 23, 2021
In South and Midwest, Legislators Try to Distract Constituents by Attacking Transgender and Nonbinary Young People
Less than one month after the Biden-Harris Administration repealed the transgender military ban and issued an executive order decl… Read more »
February 18, 2021
Texas Lawmakers’ Response to Disaster and Crisis is Fatally Inadequate
Right now, 4.4 million Texans are without reliable power, 12 million Texans are without clean water, and 27,000 more are without r… Read more »
January 28, 2021
Biden Begins to Restore Pre-Trump Status Quo with Administrative Action on Reproductive Health – Young People Say More is Needed
(Washington, DC) — Statement from Kimberly Inez McGuire, Executive Director of URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity in… Read more »
August 19, 2020
What Do Voting Rights & Reproductive Justice Have In Common? Everything
My grandmother, Lizzie Mae Kelly, fought for her rights. In 1965, she marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the late, great Rep. John Lewis from Selma to Montgomery, but not before she was beaten on Bloody Sunday. Through it all, she, like so many other Black women, persisted…
April 28, 2020
4 reasons coronavirus is hitting black communities so hard
Preston Mitchum, policy director for URGE, a nonprofit that advocates for liberal policy issues, said the employment opportunities… Read more »
April 28, 2020
Why does Black America have more COVID-19 deaths? Racism.
“If we’d let social media tell it, young Black people are testing positive compared to other communities because we are socially d… Read more »
