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Sarah McGrew WAOW News Representative Gwen Moore introduced the Mamas First Act, hoping to see improved access to health care for mothers and their babies. The bill would utilize medicaid to reimburse doulas and midwives across the country. Representative Moore said increased access to these health care professionals will especially help women of color and women living in rural… Read more »

Elizabeth Dohms Wisconsin Public Radio U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Miwaukee, says legislation is needed to help reduce the number of black women and their children who die during or after childbirth. It's a problem that occurs at a dispproportionally higher rate compared to white women in Wisconsin. Moore's Mamas First Act, introduced last month, would use Medicaid coverage to… Read more »

Nyesha Stone The Madison Times Wisconsin’s black babies are dying at a faster rate compared to whites. Wisconsin has the highest gap between Black and white babies, according to CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. In 2013 through 2015, Wisconsin had the highest infant mortality rate for infants born to Black women in the nation at 14.3 deaths per 1,000 babies. These numbers… Read more »

Cassidy Williams Fox6Now On Monday, May 27, a large crowd gathered at Wood National Cemetery to honor the fallen. The community was invited to a Memorial Day ceremony hosted by the Milwaukee VA Medical Center to remember those buried there. "It's a very somber day for me," said John Ziegler, VFW Post 9469. "It's kind of hard." As groups lined up to place their wreaths one by one at… Read more »

Mary Spicuzza and Molly Beck Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Fifteen years before Tammy Baldwin became the first Wisconsin woman elected to Congress, she was a recent college graduate making do with a tiny Madison apartment. But the 22-year-old had big dreams — and a major role model. "I still to this day remember watching Geraldine Ferraro take the stage at the… Read more »

Stacy M. Brown Oakland Post Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) formally introduces a bill that she and others hope will help to stop federal agencies from overlooking Black-, other minority-, and women-owned businesses when establishing advertising contracts. The bill requires all federal agencies to include in their annual budget justifications for the amount spent on… Read more »

Amy Barrilleaux Isthmus The pink ballot. There were four statewide referendums up for a vote in Wisconsin on Nov. 4, 1912, but the one that could enfranchise the state’s women was printed separately, on pink paper. “It had been a rugged decade, a rugged, long stretch — many decades — for Wisconsin women,” says Genevieve McBride, professor emerita of history at UW-Milwaukee and author… Read more »

Fox6 News Wednesday, April 24 is Denim Day — an international day of awareness to call attention to sexual violence and end victim blaming. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, along with other community and city leaders, held a news conference in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault and violence. ‘I think most people don’t think about this. But every… Read more »

Danielle Kaeding URBAN Milwaukee Wisconsin’s congressional delegation is weighing in on the release on Thursday of a redacted report on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. Some Republicans, like U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, said the report confirms there was no collusion between Russians and President… Read more »

Craig Gilbert Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wisconsin Democrat Mark Pocan said Friday that the Mueller report provided “the most damning evidence we have seen yet that this president very likely obstructed the investigation” into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Like many Democrats, Pocan said it was up to Congress to continue investigating and gathering testimony while… Read more »