Avow Texas CEO raven e. freeborn discusses the effects of SB 8 as well as the future of reproductive justice in the South.

"This is some bullshit!" I thought as my 7th grade social studies class stood silent and uninterested at the grave of the Arkansas Confederate boy martyr, David O. Dodd, in the Spring of 1999. My ...

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James E. Murray, Jr., PhD is a Bedford-anthologized writer and scholar from Little Rock, Arkansas, whose work centers on race, lineage, education and repair in America. He is the former host of the ...

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Throughout my early medical education in the Deep South, race was ever-present, shaping the way we were taught to diagnose, treat, and even perceive human beings. It wasn't just a footnote; it was the ...

Workers have been forced, in some cases, to work while actively aborting a pregnancy for fear of losing their jobs.

The "War on Terror" reshaped modern U.S. identity around Islamophobia and refined the political playbook now central to dismantling reproductive freedom.

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September 1, 2026, marked the fifth anniversary of Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, effectively banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Since SB 8 went into ...