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Dani Newsum
Dani Newsum is regional outreach associate for Cobalt Advocates.
Standing knee-deep in it in Texas
By: Dani Newsum - June 7, 2021
Standing. Skin in the game. It’s a basic legal principle drilled into the head of every first-year law student. In order to maintain a suit in court, a person has to have suffered a tangible harm — or be threatened with suffering such harm in the future. Except in Texas. They’re different in Texas: The […]
Black maternal health is a crisis and we must take action
By: Dani Newsum - April 12, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has tragically demonstrated the lethality of race-based health and health care disparities in the United States. Maternal mortality is another area that highlights a gaping disparity in outcomes in the U.S. April 11-17 marks Black Maternal Health Week, founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. It’s a week of awareness […]
A common thread of rage in terrorist attack on the Capitol
By: Dani Newsum - January 19, 2021
As more evidence is discovered and more arrests are made in connection to the Jan. 6 terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol, the picture of intersectional violence becomes clearer. It’s something the reproductive rights community has lived as a reality for years: a common thread of rage and violence directed at people exercising their constitutional […]