Aftershock: What Happens When Black Mothers Die
Filmmakers, Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee provide an incredibly intimate look at the Black maternal health crisis through the stories of two families who are healing from incredible loss.
Ungoverned Bodies: The Right to Choice in a Post-Roe Era
On the morning of June 24th, just before the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, I waited for birth worker, activist and reproductive psychologist, Raven Freeborn to hop on our Zoom call. When they joined, a bit frazzled, they excused their tardiness by explaining that they just got off a string of planning calls to organize resources and protests in response to the decision. I told them I couldn’t think of a more appropriate reason to be late for this particular conversation.
We Asked #BlackTechTwitter Founder Pariss Athena Why Tech Still Has a DEI Problem
Widely-touted diversity campaigns, black squares on Instagram pages, and hiring efforts that solicit marginalized candidates — are these things helping the tech industry become more accessible? Or has racism simply been carefully rebranded as a “hiring challenge”? Founder of Black Tech Pipeline and the #BlackTechTwitter movement, Pariss Chandler (known on Twitter as Pariss Athena) talks about how she broke into tech after leaving a dead-end career and why tech needs to do more than just hire Black people.
