Postpartum Medicaid Extended, 60 days to 12 Months
“Strong babies come from strong moms.” MS Black Women’s Roundtable and our partners said it over and over.
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“Strong babies come from strong moms.” MS Black Women’s Roundtable and our partners said it over and over.
It was a night to remember. It was a time for reflection. It was a moment of appreciation. It was an occasion of encouragement.
Author: Janice K. Neal-Vincent, Ph.D.,
Contributing Writer, The Mississippi Link
Women make around 82% of what men make in the same job according to a recent national study by Pew Research. The Equal Pay for Equal Work act of 2022 was passed by the Mississippi legislature to address the state’s lack of an equal pay bill.
Author: Kobee Vance, MPB Online
16 WAPT anchors Megan West and Erin Pickens were honored at two separate Women History Month events in the capital city this week.
Author: Brett Kenyon, 16 WAPT News
Paheadra Robinson shed tears in the Mississippi Capitol rotunda Tuesday afternoon when she learned that the Mississippi House had finally sent a bill to the governor’s desk that will give new mothers Medicaid for up to 12 months after giving birth—well beyond the state’s current 60-day limit on postpartum coverage.
Authors: KAYODE CROWN AND ASHTON PITTMAN, Mississippi Free Press
Cassandra Welchlin has earned comparisons to powerhouse Georgia politician and activist Stacey Abrams, and with good reason.
Author: Tomika Anderson, Oprah Daily
Black, non-Hispanic women had a rate four times higher than white, non-Hispanic women, according to a report released Thursday by the state’s Department of Health.
NBC News
Brittany Lampkin of Bentonia shares her story of losing her child and not having access to mental health services.
Kobee Vance, MPB News
JACKSON, Miss. — The latest Mississippi Maternal Mortality Report, released today, shines a glaring light on even greater disparities between white and black outcomes for
Excerpt from CNN Newsroom – After weeks under a boil water order, the governor of Mississippi said that the water in Jackson is now clean. watch full
Welcome Cassandra Welchlin, the Executive Director & Co-Convener of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable as we discuss the Jackson water crisis.
Excerpt from MS Today–Cassandra Welchlin, executive director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, and Mississippi Today health reporter Will Stribling discuss the roundtable’s Mississippi Voices
Excerpt from Afro News Article – Brown water coming out of a kitchen faucet in Jackson, Miss. is not new. Neither is boiling water in
Cassandra Welchlin, Executive Director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable speaks with Susan Hendricks about the water issues which has plagued Jackson, MS for decades.
Excerpt from CBS News Streaming – Six hundred National Guard members have been deployed to Jackson, Mississippi, to help distribute water. Many in the city