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What We Missed

By Vanessa | Published: December 1, 2010

Tweet 55 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Earlier that year, 15-year old Claudette Colvin did the same thing. A new fetal “personhood” amendment is in the works in Florida. Nancy Goldstein on the best news women have had yet regarding the AIDS pandemic. [...]

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Stand Strong with Youth on World AIDS Day

By Vanessa | Published: December 1, 2010

TweetThis is a guest post for World AIDS Day by Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Sarah Onyango, Regional Director for Africa and Dr. Linda Valencia, Guatemala Program Manager. Just outside the sprawling city of Nairobi, Kenya, sits Kibera, one of the largest urban slums in Africa. In Kibera, most families live in shacks with dirt floors and [...]