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Why should policymakers center Black women?
Black women are the core of the nation’s economy, holding the front-line jobs, running small businesses, and are more often the single heads of households. If we are elevated through policy, including everything from paid leave to stimulus programs, the economy and larger community will benefit.
I Be Black Girl Take Action seeks to influence policy and the surrounding systems to center Black women, femmes and girls.
2021 Advocacy Agenda
Expand Childcare Subsidies & Raise Childcare Worker Wages
Expand Access to Quality & Culturally Relevant Maternal Health Services
Ban Natural Hair Discrimination in Workplaces & Schools
Address the Pay Equity Gap through Paid Family Leave & Ban Salary History on Applications
Support Black Women & Femme Founders through Capital Investment & Business Resources
Current Campaigns
Natural hair discrimination in the workplace can affect how a Black woman’s job performance is perceived, what advancement opportunities she’s given, and what additional measures she may be expected to take to fit in with corporate “grooming standards”.
I Be Black Girl works with various partners across Nebraska to address the inequities, trauma and violence within the maternal health sector. Our goal is to Expand Access to Quality & Culturally Relevant Maternal Health Services.
Black women & birthing folks in the United States experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth. Black women younger than 30 are 2-3X more likely to die from pregnancy related causes than white women.
Black women are the core of the nation’s economy, holding front-line essential jobs, creating and managing businesses, and are more often the heads of households. Despite high levels of education and labor force participation, work is not paying off for Black women. We need Nebraska Policymakers to Expand Childcare Subsidies & Raise Childcare Worker Wages.
Advocacy Toolkit
Call & Email Scripts for contacting State Senators
Guidelines for crafting your testimony
Watch The NE Legislature
Find Your State Senator
Legislative Process
other resources
Connect to Women’s Fund Advocacy Efforts
Fight Racism in Nebraska
Utilize this anti-racism toolkit co-created with IBBG, ACLU Nebraska and Black and Pink.