Reports

This project examines 10 counties in rural Alabama, GA and Mississippi to explore how the costs of achieving true digital equity by extending robust broadband infrastructure into areas missing it can be offset by utilizing the potential of telehealth to improve healthcare delivery.

Atlanta – The United States federal and many state and local governments are not doing enough to end cervical cancer deaths, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) and Human Rights Watch said in a report today issued during cervical cancer awareness month and focused on the state of Georgia. In 2021, an estimated 4,290 women in the United States died from cervical cancer, including disproportionately high numbers of Black women. Human Rights Watch first reported on the issue three years ago, with a focus on Alabama.

Noam Chomsky isn’t just a lifelong reader of In These Times — he was also one
of our very first donors. In fact, he made his first donation to In These Times in
1975, a year before the inaugural issue was published.
For Noam Chomsky and our other founding sponsors—including Julian
Bond, Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Harrington, David DuBois,
Naomi Weisstein and many others—the mission of In These Times was critical.
They saw the need for an independent publication to inform and critically analyze
the emerging new movements on the American left. They also understood the
ways in which corporate media too often ignores or misrepresents progressive
causes—leaving too many important voices unheard.

2021 State of Our Schools: America’s PK–12 Public School Facilities is a joint publication of the 21st Century School Fund, Inc., the
International WELL Building Institute pbc, and the National Council on School Facilities.

A powerful, united and strategic women’s voice for powerless women and children is
critical to transforming our nation’s and world’s priorities. Building that voice across
faith, race, income, discipline and place is the purpose of the Southern Rural Black
Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI). The Children’s Defense
Fund’s (CDF) Southern Regional Office serves as regional administrator for SRBWI. The
fates of women and children are inextricably intertwined. CDF seeks a world where
mothers and babies are more important than missiles and bombs, where peace trumps
war, a world that invests in the healthy development of its children and families at
home. These values will carry over to just investment priorities for mothers and children
everywhere in our interdependent world.

ALBANY, Ga. — Today, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative (SRBWI) released startling new findings, revealing that on nearly every social indicator of well-being — from income and earnings to obesity and food security — Black women, girls and children in the rural South rank low or last. SRBWI, works in 77 rural counties of the South’s “Black Belt,” some of the most neglected regions in the U.S.

Governors across the South are being pressured to prematurely reopen our states. They need to hear from us that we can hold the complexities of the economy and the life and death health decisions that we have to make in regards to physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This groundbreaking report, “We Need Access,” is based on interviews by SRBWI, Human Rights Watch, and nine community-based researchers with Black women living in three rural counties (Baker, Coffee, and Wilcox) in Georgia. The research has found that Georgia state and US federal policies neglect the reproductive healthcare needs of Black women and contribute to an environment in which they are dying of cervical cancer, a highly preventable disease, at disproportionate rates.