Asha Immanuelle

In her final moments, we were told to stop comforting her, as if our presence was the problem. As if love could disrupt a monitor more than racism disrupts care.

I am grieving on #Juneteenth. My cousin Tai died on Sunday in a hospital room where dignity was absent and compassion was optional. She was 53.

This is what freedom delayed still looks like for Black families in America.

Tai deserved better. We all do.

The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.

NEW: Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.

By @savmargaret.bsky.social

A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

When Ella was 2 I made a decision to live as my full queer self. I gave my daughter the gift of a mother who honors truth. She graduates w. that truth. I raised her in the midst of religious condemnation, economic abuse, and emotional isolation. Yet I still raised her with light freedom & options.✊🏾

HHS is carrying out an illegal Reduction-in-Force (RIF), bypassing the unions, ignoring transparency, and violating procedure. This is taxpayer-funded waste and fraud that affects EVERYONE, so anyone can file a complaint with HHS Office of the Inspector General. 1/16

Here’s how:
Tips.oig.hhs.gov

My Petition Jill Scott · Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 · Song · 2004

open.spotify.com/track/2op7tT... My wife was ‘rif-‘fired’ from 25 years of faithful civil service today. America, you will miss her service.

The world is crazy but we leaned all the way into joy anyway. My youngest baby girl, Ella, is off to senior prom. We made it y’all! ❤️❤️

🧵It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek -a time to center Black moms & a need for action.
I’m reflecting on what this means in a year when our #NIH grant “Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Environment Across the Lifecourse, Epigenetics, & Birth Outcomes in Black Families” was terminated.
#MedSky #EpiSky

More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable.

Listen as reporter @deldeib.bsky.social breaks down her investigation on this public health crisis.

New CDC data shows a 12% rise in preterm birth over the past decade—Black women continue to face the highest rates.

This is a justice issue.

Bold policies like paid leave & EITC work—and our Alliance Partners are bringing that change to life on the ground.

#BMHW25 #PretermBirth #BirthJustice

Sending Aries love on your birthday. -March Aries

My daughter, Maya, and I got our 2025 Atl Black Maternal Health Walk & Block Party ON today! #BMHW25

#BMHW25 is HERE! 🎉

Join BMMA, Inc. as we kick off our 8th year uplifting Black Mamas & mobilizing for change under the theme: Healing Legacies.

Don’t miss today’s Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood! 💜

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/bmhw25rally

#ReproJustice

boosting because good and we need more good

Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders Actionable strategies to address maternal health disparities include centering Black maternal health experts’ voices in quality improvement efforts targeting systemic and institutional racism.

Co-creation of a Maternal Health Equity Quality Improvement Project With Black Maternal Health Stakeholders - Nursing for Women's Health www.nwhjournal.org/article/S175...

graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

We don't have to convince anyone of anything anymore. It's all out in the open. For good and bad.

FYI: Go into your Social Security account & download a hard copy of your LIFETIME WORK RECORD!!!!
It is really easy to do.  Here is the information:
Go to: the ssa.gov website.
At the top of the page you want the category:  CARD & RECORD
Go down to PERSONAL RECORD
Print out your EARNINGS RECORD

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

"While there are still state and federal laws that outlaw segregation and discrimination that companies need to comply with, legal experts say this change to contracts across the federal government is significant."

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Most deserving honor, my friend!

‘Deliberate trauma’: SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles Staff cuts at SAMSHA will imperil federal efforts to curb suicides and drug overdose deaths, employees say.

‘Deliberate trauma’:
SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/s...

State of the People | 24 Hour Marathon The State of the People is a 24-hour livestream where we will center the truth for the people instead of letting disinformation go unchecked.

You will feel SO much better and more energized & inspired watching this extraordinary array of voices giving the “State of the People,” than watching Trump’s performance.
stateofthepeople.media
It’s really great. This organic effort has been pulled together in 48 hours and it is fire!

Not even "health-related social needs" interventions are safe

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create

#BlackHistoryMonth:
The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity. America is segregated and so is pollution. We have the science, research, data and facts. But that's not enough. We must marry them to action. Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9