Category: THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF

• Maternal Mortality in America: The Data Has a Race Problem

  

  How the United States became the deadliest developed nation for childbirth — and why Black women bear the heaviest burden A Number Behind Every Name Every year in the United States, hundreds of women die from causes directly related to or aggravated by pregnancy and childbirth. In 2023, that number was 669 — down from…

  Tobi McMillan

  June 6, 2026

  Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance, Healthcare, Systemic, THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF

• Intersectionality Is Not a Buzzword — It’s a Policy Tool

  

  In 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw sat down to explain something that seemed, to her, almost embarrassingly obvious: that a Black woman’s experience of discrimination could not be understood by looking at race alone, or at sex alone. You had to look at both — and at the place where they crossed. She called that place an…

  Tobi McMillan

  June 3, 2026

  Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance, Competing Visions, Systemic, THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF, Women’s Rights