Press Clips

A partial answer is that the parties were less polarized on the issue in the 1990s, when Bill Clinton, trying to appeal to the center, … Read More

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...

“The Louisiana law is gone, but [other] restrictions remain,” said Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity. “Though abortion … Read More

As a Black queer man in America, I know far too well that the police have only continued to hurt bodies like mine throughout history … Read More

“These protesters are not Rosa Parks. They aren’t liberating anyone. They are spreading diseases as they have done since Europeans invaded the Americas more than … Read More

Preston Mitchum, policy director for URGE, a nonprofit that advocates for liberal policy issues, said the employment opportunities available for many black people often put … Read More

“If we’d let social media tell it, young Black people are testing positive compared to other communities because we are socially distancing less in an … Read More

While abortion remains legal in all 50 states, it’s becoming harder and harder to access, especially for low-income Americans. “Even if the Court strikes down … Read More

One advocacy group, URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, has focused on training and mobilizing youth. “Young people are not clinging to Roe to save them,” … Read More