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Some of Chicago’s most influential Black women kicked off Mother’s Day weekend on Friday with a vow to remove barriers made worse by the pandemic in education, health care and economic opportunity holding back the next generation of Black women and girls.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called it, “the next phase of what I hope is the feminist revolution.”
“Through the pandemic, women have suffered mightily. There are a lot of women who were forced to choose between staying at home, being a home-schooler, child care and their jobs,” Lightfoot told a virtual news conference convened by U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.