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Dalila-Johari Paul currently works as editor on Women's eNews' maternal health series in the U.S. As an editor and writer, she spent a decade in newspapers, working for The Star-Ledger, the Hartford Courant and Newsday.
The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs conference this week focused on improving maternal health and tackling rising U.S. mortality rates. One session highlighted successes of state initiatives to strengthen maternal death review processes.
Access to reproductive health care wasn’t an issue for my friends or me. But the more I learn about the struggles of women of color, and the leaders who have paved the way, the more I appreciate our sense of entitlement.
Melissa Harris-Perry writes about black women’s difficulty with a world of alien power structures. Dalila-Johari Paul embraces that insight and takes it further after attending a conference on women and power.
Women were active in the human and civil rights movements of the 19th and 20th centuries but very few were given leadership credit. A traveling exhibit that arrives in New York in February is trying to shake that.