Posts Tagged ‘black women’
Food and Environmental Justice in Mattapan: An Interview with Vivien Morris of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
During an interview in 2024 with Ramya Kumar, Program Coordinator at the Resilient Sisterhood Project (RSP) and former volunteer at Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, Vivien Morris discussed food insecurity, blue and green spaces, and health equity advocacy. Mattapan is a southern neighborhood of Boston, located a few miles from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The majority…
Read MoreYou Are Not Alone in Your Uterine Fibroids Journey
Nkem Osian, a member of Resilient Sisterhood Project’s Young Advisory Leadership Council, sat down with RSP for an interview recently about her journey with uterine fibroids. Uterine fibroids are noncancerous tumors that grow on the uterus and can cause prolonged menstrual periods, early labor, and miscarriages. The size of a fibroid varies from a small…
Read MoreRemembering Gwen Ifill
The Resilient Sisterhood Project is delighted about the recognition of the legacy of the much beloved Gwen Ifill by the US Postal Service. On January 30th, 2020 USPS unveiled the 43rd postage stamp in the Black Heritage Series, featuring Ifill. Gwen Ifill was born on September 29, 1955, in New York City. Growing up, her…
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