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Celebrating and Honoring Van Jones

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 15, 2020 at 10:00am

Today we are celebrating and honoring Van Jones who is an American news commentator, author and a world-class change maker.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2HqAujM

Celebrating and Honoring Ashley Jackson

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 13, 2020 at 12:41pm

Today we are celebrating and honoring Ashley Jackson who an activist, advocate, fiber artist and program management consultant. She served as the first Alabama State Director for the Human Rights Campaign.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #HumanRights #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/38s8isv

Celebrating and Honoring Shaun King

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 11, 2020 at 2:43pm

Today we are celebrating and honoring, Shaun King, who is a husband, #father, #activist and journalist. He is also a columnist for The Intercept and the Writer-In-Residence at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2UIOQnq

Celebrating and Honoring Ava DuVernay

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 29, 2020 at 8:00am

Today we are celebrating and honoring Ava DuVernay, is a writer, producer, director, and distributor of independent film. One of her latest project that she wrote and directed is currently on Netflix. When They See Us, a series based on the Central Park Five, five teens that were falsely accused of an attack at Central Park.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2wRfHnf

Celebrating and Honoring Maya Wiley

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 21, 2020 at 2:19pm

Today we are celebrating and honoring Maya Wiley who is is a nationally renowned expert on #racial justice and #equity. She is currently the Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University and the Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Management, Policy & Environment.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VdINHt

Celebrating and Honoring Bryan Stevenson

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 7, 2020 at 12:00pm

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Bryan Stevenson, who is the founder and Executive Director of the #Equal Justice Initiative, a human #rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #EqualRightsJustice

To learn more about Mr. Stevenson: http://bit.ly/2OCYVhE

To read more on his bestselling book, Just Mercy: http://bit.ly/31zKXm0

Celebrating and Honoring Elijah E. Cummings

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 28, 2020 at 8:00am

Today we are celebrating and honoring the late Elijah E. Cummings. He was a #civil rights #activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VvcoMH

Celebrating and Honoring Monica Jackson

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 17, 2020 at 10:00am

Today we are celebrating and honoring Monica Simpson who is the Executive Director of SisterSong, an organization working on building an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve communities.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/38nBctP

Celebrating and Honoring Michelle Alexander

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 9, 2020 at 10:00am

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Michelle Alexander, who is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #CivilRights

Learn more about Michelle: http://bit.ly/2SpYW9X

Watch her Ted talk on the future of race in America: http://bit.ly/2UxYTeR

Celebrating and Honoring Esmeralda Simmons

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 26, 2020 at 9:00am

Today we are honoring and celebrating Dr. Esmeralda Simmons, who was the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social #Justice, a community-based legal institution, based at Medgar Evers College.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Watch as Dr. Simmons was honored as back in 2014 during Women's History Month: http://bit.ly/2HZy0ZH

Celebrating and Honoring Mari "Little Miss Flint" Copeny

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 5, 2020 at 9:25am

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring Mari Copeny, who at only 12 years old is already an #activist fighting for the children in Flint, Michigan during the water crisis.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #NewHaven #Flint #LittleMissFlint #BHM

Learn more about Mari at: http://bit.ly/2Ouc4tj

And watch her on Good Morning America: http://bit.ly/381VDMM

Celebrating and Honoring Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 19, 2020 at 1:00pm

Today we are celebrating and honoring, Ta-Nehisi Coates who is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/39QVRXI

New Haven Healthy Start Celebrates and Honors Black History Month

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 1, 2020 at 12:01pm

Today is the first day of February and New Haven Healthy Start will be celebrating and honoring black activists during Black History Month. #NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM

Let's kick it off with learning about HRSA #Maternal and Child Health and the 101 #Healthy Start sites around this country.

Click here to learn more about HRSA: http://bit.ly/2UgHnvl

Celebrating and Honoring Dr. Tiffany Wiggins

Posted by New Haven Healthy Start on February 3, 2020 at 11:32am

Today's activist that #NewHaven Healthy Start is honoring and celebrating is Dr. Tiffany Wiggins. She is the Director of the Division of #HealthyStart and Perinatal Services within the #Maternal and #Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).