My paternal grandmother was part Cherokee, and, therefore, so was I. This is what I heard all my life, from my youngest days into adulthood....[Read More]
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When I was in second grade, Disney released “Pocahontas.” As a small child, I was ecstatic, and relieved, to see an Indian princess in a...[Read More]
Women AdvaNCe is a member of the NC Families Care, a coalition of over two dozen diverse organizations advocating for family-friendly workplace policies for working...[Read More]
Women's Reproductive Care
Throughout this series on women’s reproductive care, we often identify women as people with biologically-female anatomy, such as a uterus, a vagina, and ovaries. However,...[Read More]
C-sections, where an infant is surgically removed from the uterus through an abdominal incision, are important, often life-saving procedures. While a vaginal birth is the...[Read More]
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Native American Heritage
Did you know that North Carolina is home to the second largest population of Native Americans east of the Mississippi River? We’re home to the:...[Read More]
The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed in 1993, and has allowed 35 million workers to have access to combat health issues, bond with...[Read More]
Over the course of a few months in the summer of 2017, two women from Lumberton, NC, went missing, Cynthia Jacobs and Abby Lynn Patterson....[Read More]