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Planned Parenthood has been helping women and men for over a century. Although they do a lot of good such as STD testing, breast exams, and Pap smears, it's constantly being attacked by state legislators. The reason why is because they provide abortion when a woman requests it. Only 3% of abortions are performed in a Planned Parenthood facility. It's enough to get people upset about this organization. Texas needs Planned Parenthood to stay open, and Texas and other states can benefit from having this organization.

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The mission of Planned Parenthood is:

to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual;

to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services;

to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality;

to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications.

Our Goals
Providing Expert Health Care
The heart of Planned Parenthood is in the neighborhoods we serve - the unique communities where we work and live. Our 54 distinct and locally run Planned Parenthood affiliates are the umbrella for more than 600 health centers nationwide; each reflects the diverse needs of their communities.

Our health centers provide a wide range of confidential, safe, expert health care. The majority of Planned Parenthood's services are preventive: care that helps prevent unintended pregnancies with birth control and sex education, reduce the spread of STDs through testing and treatment, and screen for cervical, breast, and other cancers. Attentive physicians, nurse practitioners, and other staff take time to talk with you, so you'll have an honest, supportive, non-judgmental space to ask questions and make informed decisions about your health and wellbeing.
Informing and Educating the Community
Planned Parenthood is proud to provide young people with honest, factual health and relationship information - in classrooms, community centers, and online - to help protect their health and reduce our nation's alarmingly high rates of unintended teen pregnancies and STDs. Our Planned Parenthood affiliates provide educational programs and outreach to 1.5 million young people and adults every year.
Leading the Reproductive Health and Rights Movement
On campuses and online, in statehouses and courts, in local communities, and in the media, Planned Parenthood is an outspoken , passionate advocate for policies that enable all people to access comprehensive reproductive and sexual health care, education, and information. Whether we're talking to members of Congress, parents, or faith leaders, or arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court - we fight for commonsense policies that respect your right to make empowered, informed decisions about health, sex, and family planning.

The Planned Parenthood Action Network empowers online activists in all 50 states to get involved with campaigns that advance reproductive health and women's rights.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Strengthening our commitment to protect women's health, educate young people, and expand access to reproductive health care, the Action Fund does educational and electoral work, including public education campaigns, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy.

Advancing Global Health
Planned Parenthood works with local partners in Africa and Latin America to overcome these barriers by increasing access to health care and education. We nurture local leadership, foster sustainable health and education programs, and fight for legal, social, and political improvements in communities around the world.

Planned Parenthood Global also advocates for safe policies that improve the sexual and reproductive health and well-being of individuals and families across the globe.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America is also a founding member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, based in London.

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What is Planned Parenthood's Mission Statement?

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The mission of Planned Parenthood is: to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual; to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services; to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality; to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications.

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Crisaeus Valadez: Lack of Diversity in Art Institutions

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Crisaeus Valadez: Lack of Diversity in Art Institutions

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For years, art institutions have been primarily white and male centered, even with increased diversity in their contemporary art collections. There are still many curators who are overlooked because of their race, gender, or background. According to a 2015 survey, 84 percent of the country's museum staff (curators, educators, conservators and upper-level administrators) was non-Hispanic white; blacks were 4 percent, Asian Americans 6 percent. There were zero Native Hawaiians and Native Americans. This is a systemic problem that has only recently been addressed because of things like the Black Lives Matter movement and the rise of AAPI hate crimes. The majority of the problem lies within the hoops curators have to jump through that were put in place specifically to keep people of color out of these positions decades ago. There is also the issue of gentrification in neighborhoods that house most US museums and a lack of community outreach.

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The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum's African art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African-American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, "There are very few of us in the field."

Despite the public assumption that most African art curators in the U.S. are of African descent, Nelson points out, "in the United States, the field is largely made up of white people - and most of those people are female." So the appointment of Kristen Windmuller-Luna was, for Nelson, business as usual.

But some Brooklynites are pushing back. A coalition of community activist organizations, Decolonize This Place, sent a strongly worded open letter to the museum. The group urged management to rethink Windmuller-Luna's hiring, saying, "No matter how one parses it, the appointment is simply not a good look in this day and age, especially on the part of a museum that prides itself on its relationships with the diverse communities of Brooklyn."

The museum, which is acknowledged to have a more diverse staff than most, responded via director Anne Pasternak: "I am writing to state unequivocally that the Brooklyn Museum stands by our appointment of Dr. Kristen Windmuller-Luna." Pasternak noted the museum's collection of African Arts "is among the most important and extensive in the nation" and the new curator was chosen for her deep knowledge and love of the field.
Gatekeepers of a different culture
No one is debating Windmuller-Luna's qualifications (her degrees from Yale and Princeton, and previous museum appointments). They are registering frustration that white people are continually made to be gatekeepers of art from the African diaspora.

"You know," UCLA's Steven Nelson continues, "they made two hires, and no one seems upset about the fact that they hired a white guy for photography, which in fact is a much more diverse field than African art." What people should really be up in arms about, Nelson says, is the fact that "there were eight reasonably high-profile hires in the art world over the last couple of weeks, and that seven of those eight are white people." (One is Asian-American.) "No one batted an eye about that," he says.

For instance, Colin Mackenzie was hired to oversee the Art Institute of Chicago's extensive Chinese art collection. And on Tuesday, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, arguably the most prestigious U.S. museum, announced the appointment of a new director, Max Hollein, who is white, male and European.

Former Met director Philippe de Montebello (also white, male, European) dismissed a group request to deliberately search for a female director in one word: "Ridiculous." Two days after Hollein's appointment was announced, Liza Oliver, a former Fellow of the museum, and current art history professor at Wellesley College, published a tart opinion piece in The New York Times: "Appointing Yet Another White, Male Director Is a Missed Opportunity for the Met."
Non-diversity a systemic problem for most museums
In 2015, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a survey to gauge ethnic and gender diversity among the country's museums. The results were dismaying: according to the survey, 84 percent of the country's museum staff (curators, educators, conservators and upper-level administrators) was non-Hispanic white; blacks were 4 percent, Asian Americans 6 percent. Native Hawaiians and Native Americans? Zero.

Women fared better - at almost 60 percent of professional museum staff. Significant numbers of nonwhite staff tended to be in jobs like security, human resources, facilities and finance.

Some critics say the lack of people of color in the museum world is a systemic problem that has long needed to be addressed. "As a discipline, art history has been very poor in attracting a diverse group of people interested not only in African art, but in all fields," UCLA's Nelson says. He adds that encouraging the interest in art careers has to start in high school and college.
Removing barriers to entry
Part of the problem is certainly economic. Internships in galleries and museums often give young people a coveted foot in the door of their intended careers. Those jobs may be prestigious, but they don't pay much. (Some don't pay anything.) Like internships in publishing, the movie and television industries, and in talent agencies, the steady stream of interns tends to come from young people who have some financial support other beyond their salaries. Those who have to work to help pay college expenses may have to pass up an internship in the arts, no matter how avidly interested they are in the field.

Nelson himself remembers turning down an internship he wanted because he couldn't afford to take it.

So priming the pump to get more people of color into the arts career pipeline is an important part of the solution, one in which museums may have to lend a hand if they want to see a diverse staff. In 2013, Mellon gave a $2.07 million grant to five large museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Atlanta's High Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The grant funded curatorial fellowships for undergrads and was designed, in the foundation's words, "to open up the museum as a potential workplace to students from historically underrepresented minorities and other undergraduates who are committed to diversifying our cultural organizations."

If museums are going to last through the 21st century and beyond, it's critical that they reflect the diversity of the world outside their doors. Museum leaders are aware of this, and have begun looking for ways for their institutions to survive and thrive. One effort was a Mellon-funded series of case studies, done in collaboration with the Association of Art Museum Directors, which chose eight museums that have managed to encourage diversity, equity and inclusion. Five case studies have been released; three will be released at a later date. The point is to show what these museums have done to diversify, in the hope that others will be encouraged to follow suit.
Whose museum?
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the eight surveyed. It's facing the same challenges as the other museums, and a more immediate one: as the neighborhoods around it become ever more gentrified, the Brooklyn Museum will have to decide not only how to accommodate the newer, more affluent arrivals, but how to continue to serve the more economically marginalized communities that were there before.

Part of the ire over Kristen Windmuller-Luna's appointment seems to be related to anxiety on the part of many in black and brown Brooklyn: that their presence is much less relevant than it once was. That's painful for many black Brooklynites; Brooklyn was often considered the Black Mecca, the cultural center of greater New York's African diaspora. (It's where, for instance, millions carouse up Eastern Parkway every Labor Day at the West Indian Day Parade.)

"I remember the 1990s and 2000s when (the museum) catered to a more working-class community," Imani Henry told the blog Hyperallergic. Henry works with Equality for Flatbush, one of several groups involved in trying to slow the pace of gentrification. "The programming felt much more in touch with what was going on in the community."

Henry said that while children's events a decade ago were majority black, that's no longer the case. He feels the museum has become gentrified to reflect the affluence in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Imani Henry is not objecting to Kristen Windmuller-Luna because of her ethnicity, he told Hyperallergic. "We're not saying we don't want a white woman, but we want someone with a commitment to communities."

By that, Henry means all the communities the museum was designed to serve: the newly arrived owners of fine brownstones and luxe condos. And certainly the families living in less-elegant neighborhoods, who also want to continue to feel the museum belongs to them, too.

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Not Enough Color In American Art Museums

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subscribe to Code Switch podcast subscribe to Code Switch podcast The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum's African art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African-American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, "There are very few of us in the field."

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"Women's Rights are Human Rights", it true, women are humans but some people seem to forget. It is something that for some reason is still being fought for today when it should be something that isn't questioned or debated. However, many people still want to bring up the topic of gender norms and how women are cooks and cleaners that belong at home. This mindset is one that is harmful and perpetuates the idea that women aren't equal to men but rather, servants to their existence.

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This video takes place in Shinjuku Nichome, Japan. Shinjuku Nichome isn't really a big city its more of a small urban town. It is a place where LGBTQ communities are openly welcomed.  CDawgVA (Conner) visits a Japanese gay night bar called "Emeguri" and interviews the owner, Yui, what its like to run a LGBTQ friendly bar. Yui himself says that his bar is one of the few places in Shinjuku that is a safe haven for the LGBTQ community in Japan. Yui and his regular's mentions that in Japan if you tell anyone your sexual orientation you will be shunned.

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Images courtesy of Animal Care Services. (Copyright 2020 by KSAT) in San Antonio.

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This image shows a puppy in a box outside found by Animal Care Service. Even if that is close to a shelter, the puppy was not safe in the cold weather. Many that other animals usually wander off on their own just to explore. Most of the environments are not in the favor when they are in the streets or developing serious conduction of flees. Some of the dogs can not navigate their way around cities and neighborhoods.

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Image of protestors gathered in Los Angeles, CA on International Workers' Day, to raise awareness about the discrimination of immigrants in the country in 2018.

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Immigrants being discriminated from achieving the American Dream

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Immigrants being discriminated from achieving the American Dream

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The American Dream is the idea that the United States is a land of opportunity and if one is hungry to make as much money as possible & make a good living for themselves, they should come here. However, in current times when we see immigrants attempt to do that, they are marginalized in their workplaces; as being overworked, underpaid, dangerous work conditions and facing scrutiny for being an immigrant. But, when we look back to our ancestors who came to this country centuries ago, these people were of different nationalities across the world, who came to this country to escape persecution from their home country and seek new opportunities here. If there were no problems doing that then, why are there problems doing that now?

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Issues-Wildlife focuses nationwide, specifically on the main ways environmental issues come to be. Within this case of animal poaching or overfishing is causing many species to decline, thus becoming endangered or even extinct, leading to other populations to increase and disrupt the natural environment as every animal, for the most part, plays a role within their environment.

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Discrimination has plagued the world for centuries. There is no place in the world that has not at some point discriminated against a particular group of people in some way for some reason. The reason usually is based on skin color, religion, ethnic origin, language, disability, background, gender, sexual orientation, hair color, eye color, or other similar reasons. Some people are seen as more privileged than others that are discriminated against. Those who are discriminated against are paid less than their peers, are persecuted, are bullied, are abused, are attacked, are hated without good cause, and more. It is high time that discrimination ended and all people are treated equally. There is no true equality until discrimination no longer plagues the world.

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What A Group Of College Students Learned From An Experiment On Privilege

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River City Christian School on The Lake Front

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River City Christian School on The Lake Front

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This is a story I did for Lake Front News on River City Christian School. River City is one of 2 private schools in San Antonio that offer programs geared towards children who suffer from learning challenges. Challenges range from ADHD to Dyslexia and Asperger's Syndrome. RCCS provides useful resources for students looking to enter the college field to culinary and volunteer programs while focusing on a Christ-centered environment. RCCS is a full Non-Profit Organization with a mission to enable the youth of this small San Antonio community through faith and the Holy Spirit.

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Discrimination has been an issue for centuries. It has almost always been the case where there is always somewhere in the world where a person is not accepted or welcomed by society. The reason may be because of one's gender, financial status, sexual orientation, skin color, hair color, eye color, birthmark, language, religion, ethnic background, disability, etc. Every place in the world has at some point been the source of discrimination for a particular group of people for one reason or another. Here in the current day USA, one's sexual orientation, skin color, ethnic origins, religion, disability, and gender are the main causes for discrimination. Some of these causes are causes for discrimination more so than others. People have not only lost opportunities for better lives due to discrimination, but many people have also lost their lives because of this. We must end discrimination once and for all before we cause the end of the world tearing one another apart. Discrimination must end and equality must reign true.

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What A Group Of College Students Learned From An Experiment On Privilege

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Mindfulness in regards to mental health not only improves cognitive function, but has emotional and psychological benefits. Those dealing with anxiety specifically learn to distinguish between a problem-solving thought and a nagging worry that has no benefit through mindfulness. Our mind is a powerful organ, it is our duty to take care of it. Just like taking care of our body by working out, we must treat our mental health as a priority as well.

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Mindfulness meditation may ease anxiety, mental stress - Harvard Health

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Many people practice meditation in hopes of staving off stress and stress-related health problems, even though the evidence for doing so is spotty. A new study that analyzed the results of nearly 50 solid clinical trials of meditation shows that mindfulness meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and ...

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Image of a protester at a Black Lives Matter march in London, Britain, June 28, 2020.

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This image is a good representation of how the Black Lives Matter Movement has been treated in the past. When shocking things happen, like the killing of George Floyd in 2020, they get publicized because at that moment it catches people's attention. This is before they become numb to it and move on to the next "relevant" topic. People of color have been fighting for equal rights in this country since the colonizers of America brought the first slaves over. Equality shouldn't be put on the back burner, it should be at the front of our minds. Like the image says we as people of color are not a trend and our lives still matter.