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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REFLECTION: Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion, Beverly Smith, 1989
18 May 2022
A 1989 talk by Black feminist Beverly Smith reminds us that for Black women, the right to abortion can be a woman’s right to life.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama and Liberals Killed Abortion Rights
11 May 2022
The revelation that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision has not motivated left-wing democrats to effectively mobilize on an issue they claim to care about. They are made…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court
08 Dec 2021
Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Poor Women: Pawns in the Abortion Controversy, The Black Panther, 1980
07 Dec 2021
A 1980 editorial in The Black Panther argues that the war against abortion is a bi-partisan war against poor women.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats, Abortion and Phony Politics
08 Sep 2021
Democratic party leadership are as uninterested in fighting for abortion rights as they are in addressing anything else their members need and want.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Abortion Rights and the Power of Protest
22 May 2019
An abortion rights crisis looms, but Americans have lost their fightng tools, lulled to sleep by the corporate fixers of the Democratic Party.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howelland Jessica González-Rojas
How the Promise of Roe v. Wade Left Women of Color Behind
22 May 2019
Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes, who also have the most to lose.