Honoring Life: Arizonans Observe National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, is National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD). Started in 2007, NNHAAD is focused on promoting HIV education, prevention, and testing among Native Americans,...
View ArticleMinority Health: Its Importance Here and Now
In April 2001, the National Minority Quality Forum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded to eliminate health disparities, launched National Minority Health Month. The next year, it received...
View Article“I Didn’t Want to Believe It”: Lessons from Tuskegee 40 Years Later
Located among longleaf pine and hardwood trees, low ridges, and broad floodplains, Tuskegee, Alabama, is a small town that’s been a big part of American history. Despite a modest population of less...
View ArticleThe 26th Amendment at 45: Bringing More Voters to the Fight for Reproductive...
Image of a button showing support for a lower voting age from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History When the question of same-sex marriage went before the Supreme Court in the summer of...
View ArticleBrothers in Arms, Part 2: Race and Abortion from Roe to the Reagan Years
This article is our second installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and opposition to abortion. Previously, this series examined how fears...
View ArticleShaking the Foundation of Privilege: The Fight for a Fair Vote, from Seneca...
In the 19th century, ample water and rich soil made Seneca Falls a town full of thriving farms and optimistic people. Idealism took hold in the many calls for progressive political reform and utopian...
View ArticleReproductive Health-Care Providers Challenge Arizona Laws That Put Women’s...
On Thursday, April 11, women’s reproductive health-care providers filed a federal lawsuit seeking to remove Arizona TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws that prevent and delay many...
View ArticleVictories and Vigilance
If you are keeping count, last week saw the 100th day of our Arizona state legislative session. Some might say that the lack of any outright proposals to attack abortion during this legislative session...
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