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Jan 9, 2019 · Jan 9, 2019. The wrenching image of a Black mother clinging to her 1-year-old son as police officers and security guards at a public benefits office in Brooklyn ripped him from her arms went viral recently. Child endangerment and resisting arrest charges against the 23-year-old Brooklyn mom were later dropped. Now, Jazmine Headley is speaking out.
Jul 28, 2020 · What The 'Wall Of Moms' Protests Say About Motherhood, Race In America. Members of the 'Wall of Moms" lock their arms during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States ...
Apr 19, 2022 · Adams pointed to another piece of the legislation that feels very close to home: the Kira Johnson Act, named after a 39-year-old Black mother who, after complaining of abdominal pain, died in 2016 ...
May 12, 2023 · Soyal Smalls, 37, from Poughkeepsie, New York, who was pregnant when Reuters photographed her in August 2022, believes increasing the number of Black healthcare providers would help Black mothers ...
Black Mother is a raw marriage of poetic cinema and documentary film-making, an interpretive cinema verite that opts not for factual retellings or historical research but hypnotic, transfixing assemblage of people, places, and passages melded together. It is a non-linear film but with a distinct narrative molded after the structure of a ...
Aug 21, 2023 · Black Mother. 2018. USA. Directed by Khalik Allah. DCP. 75 min. The second feature by filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah is a kind of documentary tone poem, a polyphonic work rich in atmosphere and intimate portraiture. Filmed over the course of numerous trips to Jamaica, his mother’s own motherland, Black Mother immerses us in the island’s neighboring worlds of charismatic holy men ...
Aug 23, 2022 · Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association strives to encourage and support Black moms in their quest to breastfeed by offering education, support groups, programs, and training. Although "fed is best," the organization wants Black moms to have the help and support they need if they make a choice to breastfeed.
