Topic: women’s health
Ali Velshi on Vanishing Women’s Rights
The MSNBC host reviews the degradation of women's rights the world over — including here in the U.S.
By Ali Velshi
Who is Joanna McClinton?
The young, reform-minded, Black Philadelphia Democrat is the first woman Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
Michael Eric Dyson’s Black History Month All Stars
All-Star #11: C. Delores Tucker
By Michael Eric Dyson
Ali Velshi on Abortion and the Midterm Elections
The MSNBC host and Citizen Board Member breaks down the effect of overturning Roe v. Wade on the midterm elections nationwide
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi asks — Five Years into #MeToo, has Enough Changed?
MSNBC host looks back at the start and looks toward the future of the #MeToo movement
By Ali Velshi
Kerri Conner Matchett and Anita Conner
A mother and daughter who are living through breast cancer help other Black women access the care they need and deserve
By Lisa Bryant
Rape Kit Tracking System
Pennsylvania is one of only 12 states without a statewide system for tracking evidence from rapes, something that holds authorities accountable and helps ease trauma. Two state legislators want to change that
By Grace Shallow
The Price of City Council’s National Politics
Councilmembers’ attempts to legislate national politics distract them from the local issues only they can solve. They should do better.
By Jemille Q. Duncan
Cayaba Care
A West Philly-born holistic maternal health care group has improved pregnancy outcomes for more than 1,000 Philadelphians — and are readying to help more women nationally
By Courtney DuChene
Lynette Medley and Nya McGlone
The mother-daughter duo’s own experience with “period poverty” inspired their Germantown nonprofit No More Secrets, which has distributed over 4 million menstrual products to women experiencing “period poverty” in the last year.
By Courtney DuChene