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Women’s Rights
Florida investigates petition signatures; Floridians Protecting Freedom responds
An investigation into fraud signatures has ballot petitioners retaliating-such as lawsuits. The ballot was confirmed in Feb.
Democratic State House candidate focuses on property insurance in race against incumbent
As Democratic legislative candidate Ashley Brundage campaigns door to door, one issue keeps coming up: the property insurance crisis. Property insurance is becoming unaffordable for many Florida homeowners, Brundage says, and most of the blame...
The collective opinion, world humanitarian day
Community Speaks WMNF shares the facts behind the headlines. Primary and general election analysis, humanitarian crisis and declaration of genocide.
Drawn from research conducted over the course of a decade, education scholar Rachelle Winkle Wagner elevates in The Chosen We : Black Women’s Empowerment In Higher Education the experiences and oral histories of 105 accomplished,...
Tampa’s Fearless Four Fought Discrimination in City Employment
MidPoint learns the history of The Fearless Four: four Black Tampa policemen who, in the face of heavy backlash, filed a racial discrimination complaint against the Tampa Police Dept. in the 1970's, which helped spark...
Lakeland woman describes agony of forced birth under Florida’s strict abortion law
Deborah Dorbert of Lakeland was a few months pregnant when her doctor delivered disturbing news: Her unborn child had Potter’s Syndrome, which meant he did not have kidneys and his lungs were not developing normally....
The Scoop: Wed. April 24th, 2024 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF
Biden speaks in Tampa President Joe Biden came to Tampa to speak about abortion rights Peace activists protest Biden More than one hundred anti-war demonstrators protested against Biden My Safe Florida Home money A bill...
Hotspot Famine, Dehumanizing Florida Laws
Violence in Haiti and war in Gaza, Palestine Territory is leading to famine, an extreme scarcity of food. World Food Program update: https://www.wfp.org/ Three Famines: Gaza, Sudan and Haiti https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/03/25/opinion/opinion-contributor/three-famines-gaza-sudan-and-haiti/ Confronting famine the violence in Gaza...
Experts review the legal and medical status of reproductive rights & technologies today. Surrogacy lawyer Roia Barrios and reproductive endocrinologist & obgyn fertility specialist Dr. Carolina Sueldo discuss the Alabama IVF law, "fetal personhood," the...
Women’s History Month: Power of Fight
Women were instrumental in saving two schools headed for closure in Tampa. Women fight and win consequential battles with little notoriety. Women historically have had to battle against slavery and empowered the abolitionist movement, against...
Two Important Books On American Women’s Lives
Felicia Kornbluh – A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life – My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice is the story of...
A panel of Attorneys and Organizers from Floridians Protecting Freedom, the coalition of advocacy groups promoting the abortion rights FL Constitutional Amendment, are with us to discuss the referendum’s path through collecting petition signatures to...
