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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
To learn more about Dr. Wiggins: http://bit.ly/38X5raM
Charles Johnson lost his wife, Kira Johnson, post childbirth and he's fighting to make sure no more Black women die from poor post-natal care. He’s a great dad raising his two sons, Charles V and Langston. He’s fighting for justice! Support HR.1318 & S.1112.
Watch this Ted talk with Kimberle Williams Crenshaw on "The Urgency of Intersectionality"
Monica Raye Simpson is an African American activist and executive director of SisterSong, the United States' largest organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color.
Take a look at The #History of #Reproductive #Justice #BHM #NewHaven#HealthyStart #blackchamptions4health
The United States ranks 47th globally for its maternal mortality rate and the maternal death rate continues to rise despite major advancements in medical technology and treatments. The statistics on #maternal death are staggering. Each year in the United States, about 700 to 1,200 women die from pregnancy or childbirth complications, and black women are about three to four times more likely to die of #pregnancy or delivery complications than white women. Many are working to address the crisis with #Black mothers.
Read articles here: https://nyti.ms/2GOKeCf and https://cnn.it/2HcPjZG
Watch the video: https://binged.it/2MUEvyG
If you or know of someone that is pregnant, contact #NewHaven#HealthyStart and we will get them enrolled into our program! Contact us at 203.777.7086. #BHM #blackchampions4health
