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The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSAuthor: NCOBPS
The National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) is hosting this podcast series called The Freedom Plow in recognition of its 50-year anniversary . The poet Langston Hughes said that when times get hard and it seems like dreams have been deferred, we must keep our hands on the Freedom Plow and Hold On! Hold On! Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Black Women and the Reproductive Justice Movement
Thursday, 18 June, 2020
This episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at Black Women and the Reproductive Justice (RJ) movement. Our two guests are academicians and scholar activists with decades-long experiences in the reproductive justice movement. Dr. Tonya M. Williams is the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cosumnes River College in California and previously worked at Johnson C. Smith University. She spent years in the reproductive justice movement working in California and the Deep South, including as a Program Director at SPARK, a Black-led Reproductive Justice organization in Atlanta. She has also produced groundbreaking research on reproductive justice activism at both the grassroots and elite levels. Dr. Kimala Price is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She has been co-director of the Bread and Roses Center for Feminist Research and Activism at her university. She has also been an active member of SisterSong, a prominent reproductive organization in the South. Her research focuses on reproductive health policy and politics.
