A Black-Owned Care Box for Moms Post Delivery? Yes, Please! Essence 3 hrs ago LaShieka Hunter
Yes, the period after a woman gives birth can be full of precious moments bonding with her new bundle of joy, but it can also be an exhausting time in which a woman needs physical and emotional healing. But does a new mom get time for that after the birthing process? Does she get the chance to care for and pamper herself after going through such a life-altering experience? Rarely. So she enters what some call the “fourth trimester,” the post-natal period in which she often needs even more care than the previous three trimesters. Now, thanks to the Fourth Phase Afterbirth Box, new mamas can now heal and get the essential self-care they need.
Marcus Goodwin, D.C. council candidate, weighs in on ‘America’s News HQ.’
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., has reintroduced legislation to remove a statue commemorating emancipation, arguing that 19th-century memorial doesn t do enough to honor slaves contribution to their own freedom.
Dedicated in 1876, the statue shows former President Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, with his hand outstretched over a shackled slave who is kneeling beside him. It was erected after a freed slave, Charlotte Scott, started a fundraising campaign that collected funds from freed slaves. Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation in any way, and it shows, Holmes Norton said in a press release last week.
Oregon’s computers keep sending erroneous letters to jobless workers; the state says there’s no
News Highlights: Oregon’s computers keep sending erroneous letters to jobless workers; the state says there’s no.
Peggy Latshaw’s job as a fitness instructor vanished last spring when gyms and the hospital where she worked closed all their classes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Like hundreds of thousands of Oregonians, she was unemployed overnight. And like hundreds of thousands of Oregonians, she found herself unable to get her unemployment benefits from the Oregon Employment Department or reach the labor department to find out why she wasn’t paid.