In 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered a speech best known as“Ain’t I A Woman?” to a crowded audience at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. At the time, slavery remained in full force, a vibrant ...

When Linda Holmes was pregnant in 1976, she knew from her time as a Black student activist that she would have to fight to make choices about how she gave birth, from limiting medical intervention to ...

A self-described Vancouver Island "childbirth activist" prohibited from serving as a midwife is facing a lawsuit from the parents of a child who was allegedly injured during a botched home birth.