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- Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) combats state abortion laws with a new bill.
- Arizona prisons ban a criminal justice book.
- AL state Sen. intros bill to repeal abortion law.
- Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ) intros bill to protect children from lead in federal housing.
- Native Americans turn to niche media to make sure they’re counted in Census. Read to the bottom!
- Catch The Beat DC’s Tiffany D. Cross on CNN today in the 2P hour, on Saturday in the 1P hour, and on Sunday on MSNBC’s AM Joy at 10A EDT.
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) with Poligon Education Fund Founder Wardah Khalid on Capitol Hill for Iftar at the Capitol as part of Ramadan on Tuesday.
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Music lawyer Dina LaPolt with Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) on Sunday in LA.
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Bob Menéndez Intros Bill to Protect Children from Lead in Federal Housing
At least 4 million U.S. households have children living in them that are being exposed to high levels of lead. There are approximately half a million U.S. children ages 1-5 with blood lead levels higher than the level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated. Left unaddressed, lead poisoning can cause irreversible and long-term health, neurological, and behavioral damage in children. Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ) on Tuesday introduced legislation to reduce the threat of lead exposure and lead poisoning of children in federally assisted housing. “It’s incomprehensible that, in 2019, children are still growing up in homes where it’s unsafe to breathe the air because of lead contamination,” said Menéndez. The Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act would prohibit the use of visual assessments for low-income housing constructed prior to 1978 and require the use of more stringent risk assessments or more accurate evaluation tools that align with prevailing science to identify lead hazards before a family moves into the home. It would also provide a process for families to relocate on an emergency basis, without penalty or the loss of assistance, if a lead hazard is identified in a home and it is not controlled within 30 days, and it would require landlords to disclose the presence of lead if lead hazards are found in the home. “There is no safe lead level for children, which is why we must do more to strengthen inspection standards and prevent children’s exposure to lead hazards in federally-assisted housing. The cost of inaction is far too great for our kids and our communities,” added Menéndez. More here.
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Kamala Harris Intros Bill to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality
The U.S. is one of 13 countries in the world where the rate of maternal mortality is now worse than it was 25 years ago. For Black women, the risk of death from pregnancy-related causes is three to four times higher than for white women, and Black women are twice as likely to suffer from life-threatening pregnancy complications. To help reduce those statistics, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) reintroduced the Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies Act. The bill creates a $25 million grant program to fight racial bias in maternal health care through training programs and medical schools, and allocates $125 million to identify high-risk pregnancies and provide mothers with the culturally competent care and any resources they need. “Black mothers across the country are facing a health crisis that is driven in part by implicit bias in our health care system. We must take action to address this issue, and we must do it with the sense of urgency it deserves,” said Harris. “My Maternal CARE Act will establish implicit bias training throughout the medical profession and help ensure that women—especially Black women—have access to comprehensive, culturally competent care.” Additionally, the bill would require the National Academy of Medicine to study and make recommendations for incorporating bias recognition in clinical skills testing for medical schools. Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC), founder and co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, introduced companion legislation in the House. “We cannot address the black maternal health crisis facing this country until we address racial disparities in healthcare,” Adams said. “The Maternal CARE Act will confront the persistent biases in our health system to ensure Black women have equal access to the quality pre – and post-natal care they deserve.” More here.
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Tammy Duckworth Aims to Stop Forcing Vets to Pay Copays
Veterans are forced to pay copays for preventive healthcare services that servicemembers, military retirees, and civilians with private insurance plans receive for no out-of-pocket cost. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) wants to change this and reintroduced a bipartisan bill this week specifically for vets. The Veterans Preventive Health Coverage Fairness Act, which she introduced with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), would stop forcing vets from paying out-of-pocket costs for essential preventive health medications and prescription drugs, and also add preventive medications and services to the list of no-fee treatments that VA covers. “All Americans deserve access to the best healthcare possible—especially the Veterans who risked life and limb to defend our nation and made significant sacrifices on our behalf,” said Duckworth, also a combat veteran. “This common-sense bipartisan legislation will ensure we’re no longer asking Veterans to pay more for essential health services than every other insured American, while saving taxpayer dollars in the process.” More here.
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Cory Booker Aims to Crackdown on Predatory Overdraft Fees
Overdraft fees have become a crucial source of revenue for financial institutions well known for targeting low-income customers who struggle the most to stay out of debt -- which are overwhelmingly communities of color. The Trump administration is currently reviewing a federal rule that limits banks’ ability to charge overdraft fees without customers’ permission. The policy was aimed at preventing customers from unwittingly incurring a $35 overdraft fee for something that costs less than $5. Now, the MAGA champion of the working man may change that. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is responding by reintroducing legislation in the Senate that he said would strengthen protections for customers. The Stop Overdraft Profiteering Act, which Booker introduced with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), would ban overdraft fees on debit card transactions and ATM withdrawals, and limit fees placed for checks and recurring payments. It would also mandate that banks post transactions in a manner that minimizes overdraft and insufficient fund fees. “Overdraft fees fall disproportionately on those least able to afford them – people for whom a $35 overdraft charge could push them over the brink and into financial ruin,” Booker said. “As the Trump Administration questions the importance of the 2009 Overdraft Rule, hardworking Americans are even more at risk of being trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty by these predatory fees. Our bill would end these unfair practices.” Overdraft fees presented a cost of $15 billion to U.S. consumers in 2016, according to a report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). More here.
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Rapper T.I., Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), and The Breakfast Club's Charlamagne tha God advocating for Opportunity Zones on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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Congressman Juan Vargas (D-CA) on Tuesday honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, passing the House in DC.
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Judy Chu Combats State Anti-Choice Laws
The near-total ban on abortions in Alabama is the most restrictive abortion legislation in the U.S., but it’s not the only state trying to severely limit a woman’s right to choose. Missouri, Louisiana, South Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, and Mississippi have also recently passed laws that would restrict access to abortions. In fact, since 2011, there have been over 400 state-level laws to curb access to abortion. CAPAC Chair Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) wants Congress to put a stop to this. She chairs the Pro-Choice Caucus Contraception and Family Planning Task Force and will join Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today to reintroduce the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would protect the right to abortion by creating a safeguard against restrictions on abortion that apply to no similar medical care. These restrictions interfere with patients’ personal decision-making and block access to safe, legal abortion care. “States like Alabama and Georgia are trying to take us back. These draconian laws are just the latest in a decades-long effort to undermine Roe at the state level,” the Congresswoman said. “This bill would affirm our right to an abortion and affirm a doctor’s right to provide one. And, it prevents states from making any law that restricts access to abortion for nonmedical reasons. That means no unnecessary ultrasounds or waiting periods. No requirements that clinic doors be a certain width. And no bans, period. Abortion is healthcare, healthcare is a human right, and women will not have our rights denied.” More here.
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Lawmakers Call for Commission to Study Social Status of Black Men and Boys
Members of the Congressional Back Caucus (CBC) created a commission to study the challenges facing Black males, including a high rate of homicides and incarceration and other hardships. Co-chaired by Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Cedric Richmond (D-LA), and Lucy McBath (D-GA), the Caucus publicly introduced a resolution at a press conference last week to establish an advisory body that would examine the societal inequities that adversely affect this demographic. The Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys Act calls for a bipartisan commission to be housed within the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ office. It would be led by a staff director, and its 19 members would include appointees from the Senate and the House, the CBC chairperson, and five CBC members, as well as representatives from federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations. The commission would be charged with examining homicide rates, arrest and incarceration rates, poverty, violence, fatherhood, mentorship, drug abuse, death rates, disparate income and wealth levels, school performance at various grade levels, and health issues. McBath, whose son, Jordan Davis, was gunned down by a white motorist in Florida for playing his music too loudly, spoke at the press conference. “I was teaching him to stand up against unrighteousness and to stand up in the face of injustice. I was preparing him to take his place in this world at the decision-making table as a powerful young black man. My son, like so many others, was a victim of implicit bias and racism and I feel an obligation in my core to address these issues on behalf of each of the young men that are standing here today full of potential and destined to do great things.” More here.
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Tulsi Gabbard Moves to Help Transitioning Servicemembers Get Jobs in Education
Approximately 200,000 U.S. service members return to civilian life each year. And many veterans possess vital leadership experience that can be passed on. Presidential candidate Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) wants to help facilitate their transition into the education industry. Gabbard on Wednesday teamed up with Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI) to introduce the Heroes Entering Roles of Education Service Act. The legislation would provide an expanded pipeline for servicemembers and veterans to transition into school careers such as teachers as well as nurses, counselors, teacher’s aides, librarians, administrators, school resource officers, and other support personnel. “Millions of veterans have returned home since 9/11 and bring with them a wealth of experience and technical skills from which our children and communities can benefit. At the same time, there are schools across the nation which face a shortage of qualified personnel,” said Gabbard, who continues to serve in the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard. “This bill helps our veterans connect to these employment opportunities while bringing their mission of service over self to schools in need.” More here.
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CNN White House correspondent Abby Phillip on Saturday in Baltimore at the Preakness Stakes horse race.
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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro over the weekend with a supporter at Flagstaff's 22nd annual Fiesta de Mayo celebration in Flagstaff, AZ.
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Republican PAC Focused on Diversity Launches
The Republican party is overwhelmingly white and male, and a new political action committee is hoping to change that. Catalyst PAC, a multi-candidate 527 group, officially launched on Monday. The group said it would endorse and raise money for congressional candidates who are nonwhite, LGBTQ, or religious and ethnic minorities. And unlike the NRCC, this group will endorse in primary races. “For years, I’ve had conversations with Republicans around the country and across the ideological spectrum -- about just what it means to support diverse voices in our Party. I’m delighted to be helping to lead this effort that’s walking that talk,” co-founder Rina Shah (pictured) told The Daily Caller. Meanwhile, House Republicans on Monday overwhelmingly voted against an LGBTQ equality measure, and the Trump administration rolled out a proposed overhaul of the country’s immigration system that’s clearly steeped in white supremacy. “The GOP understands that it’s hit a low point as far as its ability to represent the American public,” communications director Albert Eisenberg said to Roll Call. “Our brand is really toxic.” More here.
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Cedric Richmond Presses Diversity in Cybersecurity
The vast majority of the cybersecurity workforce is white and male. Only 9% are African American, 4% are Hispanic, and 11% are women. Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA), chair of the Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation Subcommittee, raised this issue at a hearing this week. “Now that I have the gavel, I want to use it to drive home an important point: Diversity is essential for national security, and for cybersecurity,” Richmond said. He referenced the White House’s recently issued executive order on America’s Cybersecurity Workforce, noting that it was “mostly silent” on diversity. Grambling State University Richard Gallot Jr. testified at the hearing and said the HBCU will soon launch Louisiana’s first -- and America’s 13th -- cybersecurity undergraduate program. Gallot said establishing partnerships and pushing collaboration between K-12 institutions, community colleges, and universities is vital to addressing the issue and increasing access to cyber education particularly for people in rural areas that may have fewer opportunities. “Creating that pipeline from high school to either a community or junior college and then into a university is something that has worked well for us,” he said. Excelsior College National Cybersecurity Institute (NCI) Director Dr. Amelia Estwick said, “This pipeline can be sustained by recruiting, retaining, and advancing populations – such as military and veterans with transferable skills, individuals from underrepresented groups to include Black, Latinx, American Indian, Alaskan natives -- funding initiatives to support cybersecurity programs at minority-serving institutions, and support for advocacy groups who focus on broadening participation in the cybersecurity field.” There were no clear policy proposals that came out of the hearing, but Richmond plans to pursue the issue. More here.
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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang sitting on the lap of his older brother, Lawrence, circa 1970s.
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CBS News’ Gayle King with her newborn daughter, Kirby, circa 1987.
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CBS Overhaul Excludes Latinxs
As part of a series of sweeping changes, CBS recently debuted its new CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News anchor and correspondent teams. There was not a single Latinx anchor or correspondent on either of its national news broadcasts -- even though Latinxs are the nation’s largest community of color. The new CBS This Morning anchor team consists of Gayle King, Anthony Mason, and Tony Dokoupil, and the correspondents dedicated to the show are David Begnaud, Jericka Duncan, Anna Werner, and Vladimir Duthiers. King and Duncan are Black, and Duthiers is Haitian/French -- he does not consider himself Latino. As for CBS Evening News, Norah O’Donnell will become its anchor and managing editor this summer. “Our community is tired of being absent in the national consciousness and now absent in the consciousness of a national news network,” said Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. “If Susan Zirinsky and her news teams are truly in pursuit of bringing authentic, three-dimensional and original stories to the American public ethically, impartially and honestly, then they should be inclusive of all major ethnic, racial groups in their hiring practices. If not, CBS risks Latinos abandoning its national newscasts." CBS came under fire earlier this year over the network’s lack of Black reporters slated to cover the 2020 presidential race. The network’s leadership met with Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) -- whom they assured that they would unveil a more diverse and inclusive slate of African American journalists as well as journalists from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. More here.
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NBC Names Diverse Campaign “Embed” Team
NBC News announced its 2020 “embed” team -- a group of reporters and producers who extensively cover candidates and early states. The 10-person 2020 team is made up of four people of color, and eight are women. Ben Pu was most recently an associate producer for MSNBC. Before joining the network, the University of California, Santa Barbara graduate was the lead digital media producer for the Phillip Yin for Lieutenant Governor campaign and was also a radio host and producer at KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara. Pu is also an avid photographer and a proud card-carrying Eagle Scout. Marianna Sotomayor is shifting from NBC News’ Capitol Hill unit to the embed team. The George Washington University double graduate, who is fluent in English and Spanish, was a White House Correspondents Association scholar in 2015 and interned at Campaigns and Elections Magazine, The Hill, and CNN’s Washington Bureau. Deepa Shivaram was an associate producer for NBC’s Meet the Press, where she focused on national politics and elections. The George Washington University graduate was a freelance desk producer with the BBC’s Washington Bureau during the 2016 election and a videographer for the GW Hatchet, the university’s student newspaper before her stint at Meet the Press. Priscilla Thompson was most recently an associate producer at CNN. Before that, she held various roles including as a multimedia journalist at WPDE, the Myrtle Beach, SC ABC affiliate; as a multimedia producer and recruiter with the Houston Independent School District; as a videographer for the National Federation of the Blind; and as a reporter and producer for KVR 29 News in Texas. The University of Texas at Austin graduate, who holds a Master’s from Columbia, also served as a teacher with Teach for America, among other jobs and internships. “I think if you don’t look like 21st century America, then you can’t cover American politics very well,” said Chuck Todd, who runs the embed team. This cycle, the NBC embeds’ work will be published across the broadcast network, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, NBCNews.com, on podcasts and on platforms such as Snapchat and YouTube. The rest of the group of 10 includes of Maura Barrett, Micki Fahner, Amanda Golden, Gary Grumbach, Jordan Jackson, and Julia Jester. More here.
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NYT Executive Editor Delivers Grim Outlook on Local News Outlets
Most local news outlets will die in the near future -- if they are not saved by a local billionaire, according to NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet. He made the comments while speaking this month before the INMA World Congress of News Media. “The greatest crisis in American journalism is the death of local news,” Baquet said. “I don’t know what the answer is.” The majority of Americans still prefer to get their news by watching television newscasts -- not reading papers, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Also, social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%). Baquet noted he isn’t “worried about Los Angeles and New York,” but is concerned about what “the model is for covering the school boards in Newark, New Jersey. That makes me nervous.” A recent analysis from the Associated Press via data from the University of North Carolina found that over 15 years, 1,400 towns and cities across America have lost a local news outlet. More here.
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Political journalist Anushay Hossain with filmmaker Abigail Disney, Time's Up Legal Defense Fund Co-Founder Tina Tchen, and Global Justice Center President Akila Radhakrishnan at the Global Justice Awards event last week in NYC.
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Six-time Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix with Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL) before testifying to the Ways and Means Committee regarding the maternal mortality crisis last week on Capitol Hill.
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Arizona Prisons Ban Criminal Justice Book
The Arizona Department of Corrections is reportedly banning prisoners from reading a book that discusses racial injustice in the criminal justice system. The book in question? Georgetown law professor Paul Butler’s Chokehold: Policing Black Men. Prison officials claim the book contains "unauthorized content" and view it as being potentially "detrimental to the safe, secure and orderly operation" of prison facilities. The Supreme Court has upheld the right of prisons to ban books when doing so is seen as a way to protect prison security. Black people comprise 14.5% of Arizona’s prison population but only 5% of the state’s total population. "One in 19 black men are in prison in Arizona right now," Butler told the AP. "Rather than acknowledge it's a good thing that inmates want to read about and debate important public policy, Arizona pushes back against rehabilitation, against literacy, against the Constitution." Prisons in North Carolina and New Jersey last year tried to ban Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, but prison officials in those states reversed course after the ACLU sent them letters. The ACLU is pressing Arizona prison officials over the ban of Butler’s book as well. More here.
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New York and California AGs Sue to Block Trump’s Abortion ‘Conscience’ Rule
The Trump administration is facing legal challenges from states aiming to stop it from enforcing its “conscience” medical exemption -- a rule that would make it easier for doctors and nurses to avoid performing abortions on religious or moral grounds. NY Attorney General Letitia James led a coalition of two dozen states and cities in a lawsuit filed Tuesday which argues that the rule illegally places the personal views of health-care workers over the medical needs of patients -- it’s possible the final rule would allow any service provider, from ambulance drivers and emergency room doctors to receptionists and even customer service representatives at insurance companies to deny service. The suit also argues that this would affect state-run health-care facilities’ ability to provide effective care, and that the states and counties could lose billions of dollars in federal health care funding if they don’t comply. “The federal government is giving health care providers free license to openly discriminate and refuse care to patients,” James said in a statement, adding it would come “at a dangerous price.” Across the country, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra brought a separate lawsuit alleging that the rule “impedes access to basic care” and “encourages discrimination against vulnerable patients,” including women and LGBTQ individuals. “The Trump Administration should be expanding access to care, not opening the door to limitless denials of care for vulnerable patients and communities,” Becerra said in a statement. “This notion of licensing the discriminate refusal of care to patients smacks of a century-old, bigoted mindset. This is 2019, not 1920. California won’t backslide.” Unless a court intervenes, the rule is scheduled to take effect on July 22nd. More here.
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California Lawmaker Offers Tax Incentive for Entertainment Productions to Leave States with Restrictive Abortion Laws
California Democratic Assemblywoman Luz Rivas introduced a bill Monday that would give tax breaks to production studios that leave states with restrictive abortion bans. This would include pending legislation or existing law that prohibits access to, criminalizes the provision of, or otherwise restricts a woman’s access to abortion services after six weeks from the beginning of the pregnancy or earlier. “States like Georgia and Alabama are turning women’s rights into a race to the bottom,” Rivas said. “As a woman of color, shame on you. Shame on you for denying women a basic health right. Shame on you for belittling and devaluing women. Shame on you for taking away a woman’s right to choose.” Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Lousiana, Ohio, and Missouri have passed some of the strictest limits on abortions in decades. None of the laws have taken effect, and all are expected to be blocked while legal challenges work their way through the courts. “There are actors and actresses that are refusing to be part of a production in one of those states,” Rivas said. “I think it really puts pressure on the industry to reconsider whether they want to do business in those states.” Since 2010, states have passed more than 400 restrictions on abortion care, advocacy group NARAL said. “A lot of the entertainment industry has relocated to Georgia because that state was very competitive with their own state film tax credit,” Rivas told CNBC. “We’re trying to further incentivize the industry that currently is filming in states with these strict abortion bans to come and do business in California and share our values.” Directors Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams have said they will continue shooting projects in Georgia but would donate 100% of their movie proceeds to fight the new abortion law. Ozark star and executive producer Jason Bateman said he wants to move production of the hit Netflix series out of Georgia, also. More here.
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Alabama State Senator Moves to Repeal Abortion Law
Alabama state Sen. Vivian Figures introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the state’s new law banning virtually all abortion procedures, the strictest abortion ban in the country. "There are consequences for every decision we make as legislators, and for every vote we cast there are ramifications,” Figures said in a release. “However, some of these effects are unintended and I truly believe this has been the case for SB314. I do not believe my Republican colleagues had any idea what the consequences for passing this bill would be.” Figures said the bill is serving as a detriment to the entire state of Alabama in terms of revenues and in terms of healthcare, particularly for women. The law that Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed would ban all abortions unless the mother’s life is in danger. It does not include exceptions for rape or incest, which has sparked some of the national criticism. A doctor who performs an abortion could get up to 99 years in prison. More here.
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AURN’s April Ryan with dancer and model Michael Bolwaire at the Echostage for Kandi Burruss’ ‘Welcome To The Dungeon’ tour over the weekend in DC.
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Congressman Lou Correa (D-CA) on Capitol Hill with Santa Ana Police officers during ‘Police Week’ last week.
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Native Americans Routinely Undercounted in Census Depending on Niche Media for 2020 Count
The Census Bureau undercounts Native Americans more than any other ethnic group. In the 2010 census, it's estimated that almost 5% of Native Americans living on reservations were not counted and almost 12% of those off the reservation went uncounted. Hence, the native community has lost out on at least 5% of its share of hundreds of billions in government allocations based on Census data. Research estimates that for the 16 large federal programs that together spend $589 billion annually based on census data, the loss comes to $1,838 per person. However, Indian Country Today’s Mark Trahant estimates the number is closer to $3,000. The National Congress of American Indians has raised concerns that the federal government isn't supplying enough funding for their communities, putting potential resources for tribes at risk. Many tribes are isolated and in rural areas that might be overlooked during the census count. Also, the Census Bureau plans to employ a new cost-cutting effort and have people complete their questionnaires online after getting a notice in the mail, but not everybody in Indian Country has ready access to a computer. Tribes are depending heavily on niche Native American media outlets to help get the message out and make sure every person is counted. More here.
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Thursday, June 6th: African American Leadership Summit and IWillVote Gala hosted by DNC Chair Tom Pérez and DNC Black Caucus Virgie M. Rollins. Featuring several 2020 Democratic candidates for president, Stacey Abrams, Representatives Hank Johnson, John Lewis, andLucy McBath; the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson; Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and more. Atlanta, GA. Click here for more information.
Thursday, June 6th - Saturday, June 8th: The American Constitution Society hosts its 2019 National Convention, including a conversation with freshman Representatives Colin Allred (D-TX), Sharice Davids (D-KS), and Katie Porter (D-CA), moderated by Kimberly Atkins. The ACS National Convention is attended by progressive lawyers, judges, legislators, law students, and academics to address the most challenging issues confronting the nation. Capital Hilton, 1001 16th Street N.W., DC. Click here for more information.
Tuesday, June 11th, 6:30P: LatinoJustice PRLDEF hosts their fourth annual Southeast Regional Awards Reception in recognition of individuals working toward resolving human and civil rights issues in the Southeast region of the U.S. Bass Museum, 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Click here for more information.
Wednesday, June 19th, 8A: LatinoJustice PRLDEF hosts their 10th annual Latina Trailblazers Breakfast to honor the achievements of Latina women who have paved the way for future Latina leaders. Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Desbrosses St, NY. Click here for more information.
Wednesday, June 26th - Sunday, June 30th: The National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women's Annual Legislative Conference, bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, and stakeholders for thought-provoking conversation around real issues that directly affect Black women and their families. Chicago, IL. Click here for more information.
Thursday, June 27th, 7P: Management Leadership for Tomorrow’s 15th Anniversary Awards Gala Dinner, celebrating underrepresented minorities who are advancing to senior leadership roles in their organizations and communities. The evening honors those working to advance African American, Latinx, and Native American women and men. Grand Hyatt, 109 E 42nd Street, NYC. Click here for more information.
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