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SRBWI and Human Rights Watch partner to produce a 94-page report, “No Excuse: Inadequate Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care for Black Women in the United

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.