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Closure of Bronx Maternity Ward Stirs Activist Ire
Healthy-Eating Teachers Target Cultural Taste Buds
New York City Workers Deserve Paid Sick Days
Umbrellas Shield N.Y.’s First Single-Sex Weddings
Marriage Equality Spreads Pride in New York
High Death Rate of New York’s Black Moms Analyzed
Why do African American women in New York City die during childbirth nearly eight times as often as the city’s new white mothers?
How could this be in a city with public hospitals available to all?
The story Women’s eNews published in April 2010 that reported this health disparity stunned the team that has been working for more than 2 years to cover the maternal and infant health of African Americans for more than two years.
Women’s Labor History Cherished; Trashed
(WOMENSENEWS)–Church bells rang Friday in New York as the city’s notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, most of them female immigrants, turned 100.
News agencies, schools and organizations throughout the city have run commemorations throughout the month and on March 27 Women’s eNews is honoring the event with a screening of a new PBS documentary about the fire.