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Addressing Black maternal mortality in the South Facing South

WebAddressing Black maternal mortality in the South. By Elisha Brown / February 26, 2021. After Gloria De Los Santos gave birth to her second daughter 12 …

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COVID-19: The unfolding public health crisis in the South

WebApril 24, 2020 - A decade after the BP oil spill set off an environmental health disaster in communities across the Gulf Coast, the company and the rest of the U.S. oil and gas …

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Oriaku Njoku on envisioning a South where reproductive justice is …

WebOriaku Njoku is the co-founder and executive director of the Atlanta-based abortion fund Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, which helps people in Alabama, …

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Medicaid expansion could be a lifeline for rural hospitals in the …

WebThe non-expansion states have seen more rural hospital closures. "The data has shown a tremendous positive impact to rural facilities in states that have expanded …

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Bringing lifesaving doula care to low-income communities in the …

WebThe United States has the highest rate of maternal deaths compared to other wealthy countries, a problem that worsened during the first year of the coronavirus …

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Tallahassee, Florida: Self-Help Fights Back Facing South

WebLinda: It is a technique that was developed by Carol Downer and Lorraine Rothman of the first Self-Help Clinic in Los Angeles in 1972. We use the term to refer to a technique, …

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Bracing for a post-Roe South in the region's last three

WebThe U.S. Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a high-profile case about the constitutionality of …

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'Sick and tired of being sick and tired': making the connection …

WebOn what would have been the 99th birthday of Mississippi voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, we recall her untimely death from heart disease at the age of 59 — a …

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The rural South lost 13 hospitals in 2020 Facing South

WebBy Olivia Paschal / March 17, 2021. Shands Starke Regional Medical Center in Florida's Bradford County was among the 13 rural Southern hospitals to close in 2020. (Photo by …

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COVID-19 looms over Southern states already walloped by poor …

WebSeveral chronic health conditions that disproportionately affect residents of Southern states are now considered potential risk factors for severe illness from COVID …

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COVID-19 is already gutting the South's health care infrastructure

WebOlivia Paschal is the archives editor with Facing South and a doctoral student in history at the University of Virginia. She was a staff reporter with Facing South for two …

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Wood pellet plant expansion targets N.C. environmental justice

WebThe small town of Ahoskie sits on the edge of Hertford County, in the rural northeastern corner of North Carolina. The mostly Black county is among a cluster of the …

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Lawsuit targets HCA's hospital monopoly in Western North Carolina

WebFounded as a charity hospital in 1885 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1951, Mission Health in Asheville, North Carolina, long enjoyed a reputation as a community …

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Will politicians who blame mass shootings on mental illness …

Web"If you care about mental health, expand Medicaid." So said Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas, in a tweet last week that went viral. …

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The limits of the Sandra Bland Act Facing South

WebThe limits of the Sandra Bland Act. By Rebekah Barber / July 14, 2017. Two years ago this week, Sandra Bland was found hanged in her jail cell in Waller County, …

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The Labor Day Index Facing South

WebYear in which union workers in New York City took unpaid leave to march in the first U.S. Labor Day parade (pictured at right): 1882Number of days following the end of 1894's …

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VOICES: Health care workers urge NC lawmakers to pass $15 …

WebOn April 22, North Carolina lawmakers joined with Raising Wages NC — a coalition of essential workers, businesses, faith leaders and policy advocates — for a …

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The long road to nuclear justice for the Marshallese people

WebThe largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States went off on the evacuated Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.*. Nearly a thousand …

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As dolphins die, Gulf residents ask what about us

WebBy Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf Willie Seaman of Irvington, AL, lays carpet and floors for a living. But last summer, as the BP well gushed thousands of barrels of oil daily into the …

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In Bible Belt, Sanders seeks common ground on morality and justice

WebBy Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams Avowed democratic socialist and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Monday gave a rousing lesson in morality to thousands of …

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