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Premature babies must be connected to life-changing therapies under new Illinois law
The bill was introduced after The Hechinger Report wrote about how too many fragile infants are missing out on federally mandated services.
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How The 19th built its inclusive three-year strategic plan
For Alexandra Smith, The 19th’s chief strategy officer, leading the organization’s first strategic planning process meant being inclusive of staff and audiences — and ignoring department lines.
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Trans Texans face yet another attempt to ban them from bathrooms
Through testimony and a Capitol bathroom sit-in, trans Texans, activists and a constable argued that the state’s latest bathroom bill doesn’t make anyone safer.
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Planned Parenthood is getting involved in the redistricting battle
Alarmed by Republicans’ deep cuts to health care and restrictions on reproductive rights, advocates are supporting California’s effort to counter gerrymandering in Texas.
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Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump's political power grab
“This is in many ways a political warning, a political message, to say to these Black women and other Black mayors and other women of color mayors, ‘Your leadership can be challenged, too.’”
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He graduated early to get gender-affirming surgery before college. Then his hospital cut him off.
Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider.
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What it means to have a woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency
The late disability justice co-founder and activist Stacey Park Milbern is the first woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency and the first person whose wheelchair is actually shown.
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‘Public schools are not Sunday schools’: Texas parents win pause on Ten Commandments in classrooms
The ruling, celebrated by a group of interfaith families, affirms that public schools cannot force religious doctrine on children.
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How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol protest sparked solidarity among these Texas women
The Fort Worth Democrat spent the night held hostage in the Texas House in protest. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight.
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One way to empower people fleeing domestic violence? Make shelter locations public.
Research has found little correlation between the real physical safety of survivors and secret shelters. Cities are catching on.