Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative Senior Policy Consultant Paheadra Robinson celebrates Mississippi House sending a bill to the governor’s desk that will give new mothers Medicaid for up to 12 months after giving birth.
We do hope that your year is off to a good start. As many of you know Selma, Alabama was nearly devastated by last week’s tornadoes. Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiatives program work includes this area. We are in the process of helping families to recover from their tragic losses. As one might imagine, families and individuals are suffering from the storm’s impact in several ways that include not being able to live safely in their homes and losing all that they owned other than their lives