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A 2022 study identified new risk factors for #PostpartumHypertension, including having had a c-section and a history of smoking cigarettes. This increased risk for was even more apparent in Black women (36%). #Postpartum #Hypertension #BlackWomen #Health #Risk #BlackWomenHealth

Join us for Prospera Institute's Inaugural Health Equity for All Symposium! We are collaborating with @ProsperaInst to host a panel on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in honor of PCOS Awareness Month. Registration is now available using this link: givebutter.com/c/prospera-ina….

Tune in TONIGHT for our virtual Boston City Council District 3 Candidate Forum! Register now: bit.ly/d3massvote

#DYK STDs are on the rise among teens? @CodmanHealth offers quick & easy testing, treatment & prevention. If you're sexually active, #GetTested - Visit codman.org/xclinic or call (617) 822-8350. Or call our Randolph location at (781) 807-1771, opening soon in RHS. #ABCD

Join us Sunday 8/13 across the street from our building in Codman Park we’re having a family fun day! A free cookout with activities for the kids with prizes and music. Come out and bring the family or who ever else you want to, it’s from 12:00pm-3:00pm at 360 Talbot Ave!

This week MA DPH released a sobering study showing maternal morbidity--dangerous complications from pregnancy and birth-- have DOUBLED in the last 10 years. And Black birthing people are 2.3x more likely to experience these complications. buff.ly/44GRECf

Are you ready for Open Streets Boston? Join us on Blue Hill Ave. in Roxbury this Saturday, July 15, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for live art, music, food trucks, games, and car-free fun! 🎉 Visit boston.gov/open-streets to learn more about the event.

Read about new changes to the Emergency Assistance (EA) Shelter system, as published in @SpareChangeNews. Please support a vendor and purchase a copy for this and other stories!

Statement from the Black Men and Boys Commission regarding recent incidents impacting Black boys in Boston.

One of the most common and delicious ways to cool down is ice cream. Your favorite treat may contain chemicals such as Red Dye No. 3 and titanium dioxide: legal in the US and banned from most food in the EU. #harmfulchemicals #icecream #summer #environmentaljustice

Join us this Wednesday at noon!

Sashi James of @justicehealing: "Communities don't need another women's prison, and we need resources." #mapoli #FreeHer #NoNewWomensPrison

"Simply attributing these [Black maternal] deaths to racism is not enough. Black mothers need urgent intervention to address the drivers of maternal death. Black mothers need action. Otherwise, people are dying in the name of profit." via @Forbes at 🔗: forbes.com/sites/lisafitz…

Ruckus and Greg tell @MassGovernor: build COMMUNITY CENTERS, not a women's prison! #ReimaginingCommunities means making direct investments in the most incarcerated communities in Massachusetts to prevent transgressions. #NoNewWomensPrison #mapoli

Big day for prison moratorium bill - & social Justice & racial equity. Proud to join @justicehealing & allies to support S1979 bill filed by @Jo_Comerford to prohibit new prisons, @CJReformMA forum of formerly incarcerated women, & bill being heard in State Admin. Time to pass!

Cindy Rowe of @JALSA_boston kicks off this morning's press conference about why the Legislature should prioritize working families, not tax cuts for the ultra-rich. She highlights RUM's history of fighting for a fair economy for all. #mapoli

Listening to sisters from inside testifying in support of the prison/jail construction moratorium bill! “We talked about what we need and no one asked for a new prison”