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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.