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Plastics Reform, Regulation Urged by Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Group

Human Rights Watch 15 Apr 2025
The California state government in the United States should better regulate plastics, says the south Los Angeles-based reproductive justice organization Black Women for Wellness ... Black Women for ...
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Study finds more people are obtaining abortions but fewer are traveling to other states for it

Times Union 15 Apr 2025
Rates rose faster for Black and Hispanic women, those with lower education levels, and people who are unmarried ... National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda ... for Black women in the U.S, she said.
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Female soldier becomes the first woman to compete in the grueling Army Ranger contest

NBC Bay Area 15 Apr 2025
Female soldiers were not allowed to be Army Rangers until 2015, when the Army opened Ranger school to women ... Later that year, the Defense Department opened all combat jobs to women.
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Blue Origin launches an all-female celebrity crew with Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez

Manila Bulletin 15 Apr 2025
... Jenner and other members of the Kardashian family; former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, who became the first Black woman in space in 1992; and several women who previously have flown on private flights.
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"I want to feel like I'm part of the change": Florence Pugh on fame, fertility and fighting for our futures

Harpers Bazaar 15 Apr 2025
Her dress for Reed’s show – a diaphanous black gown with a dramatic neckpiece that makes her look like a modern-day Maleficent – fits the bill perfectly ... “Until then, I hadn’t really seen it as something that was about the lives of women,” she says.
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Alachua County's oldest Black women's organization to host semi-annual session

The Gainesville Sun 14 Apr 2025
The Female Protective Society is the oldest continuously operating Black women's organization in Alachua County, the late Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, a historian and University of Florida professor, told The Sun in 2007.
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Is synthetic hair a health risk for Black women in the USA?

Deutsche Welle 14 Apr 2025
How safe are braids and synthetic hair extensions? Consumer investigations in the United States have raised concerns, claiming to have detected cancer-causing agents in all products tested ... .
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SAVE Act: A New Weapon Against Black and Brown Voters

The Tennessee Tribune 14 Apr 2025
Since the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, Republicans have worked relentlessly to chip away at protections for voters — particularly Black Americans, other people of color, and women.
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Arizona State’s Darrell Mosley named Coppin State women’s basketball coach

Baltimore Sun 14 Apr 2025
... coach Darrell Mosley to lead the women’s basketball program ... In March 2023, Mosley was recognized on the Advancement of Blacks in Sports (ABIS) Women’s Basketball Black Coaches Watch List.
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Missouri push to ban shackling of pregnant women in jails

News-Press Now 14 Apr 2025
(News-Press NOW) -- A Missouri bill would require all city and county jails to develop specific intake policies for pregnant women ... Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, all ...
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Trump cancels Juan Williams

The Hill 14 Apr 2025
The book is a critique of the failure of top Black leaders to protest bad schools, drug dealers, hip-hop celebrations of the “N”-word, and insulting depictions of Black women ... lives of black people.
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The legacy of leadership: How NAWBO Indy’s Boss Ladies Magazine is lifting up, showing up ...

Indianapolis Recorder 14 Apr 2025
Many women in business can relate to this sentiment ... Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, women receive only 4.4% of total small business loan dollars, and Black women receive even less.
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Netflix Took A Bad YouTube Dating Series And Somehow Made It Worse

Kotaku 14 Apr 2025
One of the non-Black women pops on Bananas and says, “My physical type is Black,” to which he, a white boy, responds, “I’m Black from the waist up.” And there’s the blondest woman on the panel ...
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Humane Society of Wicomico County eyes big move to new shelter. How you can help.

Delmarva Now 14 Apr 2025
Angela Crenshaw named among USA TODAY Women of the Year for Maryland. Maryland Park Service Director Angela Crenshaw, the first Black woman to lead the organization, is honored as one of USA Today's Women of the Year ...
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