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Streets named after women make up a very small portion of Milwaukee’s map. Recently, Ayodeji Obayomi wrote a piece for the Milwaukee Neighborhood New Service, bringing this issue to light.
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The WeRISE Community Doula program is working to train more people to become doulas who can support Black and brown pregnant people. Dalvery Blackwell, a co-founder of the African American Breastfeeding Network, shares more.
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Jada Davis was crowned Miss Milwaukee 2022. She is the first Black woman to be awarded this title in the local pageant’s 98-year history.
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Statistics from the FBI revealed that in 2020, at least four Black women and girls were killed per day in the United States. State Rep. Shelia Stubbs wants to create a task force to address the problem of missing and murdered Black women and girls in Wisconsin.
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Women’s History Month inspired Dominique Samari to create her own celebration of the women in her life. Everyday Women’s Wisdom project is a collaboration between her and illustrator Sherrill Knezel.
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The Let's Talk Womxn Milwaukee chapter is hosting a dinner Tuesday on International Women’s Day with various womxn-owned vendors. Jessie Ignatiev, Lupe Moreno and Dana Spandet share more about the Let’s Talk Womxn Milwaukee chapter and their plans for International Women's Day.
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Milwaukee actor and artist N’Jameh Russell-Camara teamed up with local doula Hanna Barton to create the Pandemic Pregnancy Project. Out of that came their series: Pandemic Pregnancies and Popsicles!, stories of pregnancy during a time of unique challenges.
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Doulas are non-medical professionals who are trained to assist pregnant people through childbirth. Kay’La Mumford is the executive director of Birth & Embrace Communities Inc. She founded the non-profit in order to address the inequalities in birthing in Milwaukee.
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Jenna Nobles, the director of UW-Madison's population research center, leads a new study that finds 1 in 5 women to have periods so irregular they're unlikely to know they're pregnant until after six weeks. She shares why this finding is so important in the conversation about abortion.
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New research reveals that half of working women in Wisconsin are considering leaving their current jobs since the pandemic began — that’s 25 percent higher than the national average. The number is even higher for women working in retail, food service and hospitality industries.