Celeste Lomax has been working at Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill in southeast Atlanta for six years. This time of year, the trees and bushes are still dormant and leafless, but the soil underneath is rich and moist — as Lomax, the site’s food steward, reveals as she digs up an elderberry tree pup. […]
Akilah Wise, Ph.D.
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The Local Fight to Increase Fibroid Research Funding
Tanika Valbrun founded the White Dress Project, an Atlanta-based uterine fibroid advocacy organization, in 2015 after undergoing two surgical procedures to remove 27 fibroids. Today, local, Black-women-led organizations like the White Dress Project and Black Women’s Health Imperative (now headquartered in Washington, D.C.) are working to increase compassionate fibroid health care and pushing for better […]
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What Abortion Access Looks Like for Black Women in Atlanta
Last December, in a pivotal moment in the nation’s ongoing fight for reproductive rights, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case centers on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban and could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. The case is pending until […]