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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nj.com | Annabel Rocha
In the days following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, Americans stocked up on their birth control and pregnancy management options amid the looming threat to access by the president-elect’s association to conservative playbook Project 2025. According to ABC News, Google searches for “birth control” and “Plan B” spiked the day after the election, with the surge starting as early as Nov. 2.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
nj.com | Annabel Rocha
2024 was a year grounded in fighting for reproductive freedom. While Vice President Harris’ bid for presidency, which strongly platformed the issue, did not land her in the White House, it brought the issue front and center at a time when the South and Midwest especially saw continued blows to to abortion access and other reproductive care services.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nj.com | Annabel Rocha
Women’s sports had a moment in 2024. In-person attendance and viewership were higher, women’s professional sports sponsorships increased by 22%, and athletes had greater visibility, with stars like Olympian Ilona Mayer and WNBA player Angel Reese becoming household names on and off the courts. Though networks have traditionally made it difficult to keep up with women’s leagues, they are noticing the increased interest and responding to demand.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nj.com | Annabel Rocha
When Hope Ngumezi wrapped his wife in a blanket at a Houston hospital, watching her bleed through two transfusions during what should have been a routine miscarriage, he had no idea she’d become part of a growing statistic: Black women dying preventable deaths under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
reckon.news | Annabel Rocha
This Thanksgiving week there two things are at the forefront of Americans minds: eating and shopping. Retail Dive reports that 36% of Americans are expected to shop on Black Friday, with 34% planning to shop on Cyber Monday and though concerns about the economy were at the forefront of the election, shoppers say they have money to blow. Consumers are expecting to spend about $650 over the shopping weekend, .
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
nj.com | Annabel Rocha
Before we ask if Donald Trump can deport millions, remember this: Barack Obama already showed us how. His administration deported 3 million people without military help – just U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, buses, and a ruthless efficiency that earned him the name ‘Deporter-in-Chief.” Parents like Andres Jimenez were sent away for driving without a license, leaving five American children behind.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Annabel Rocha
6 hours agoJeh Johnson explained why Trump's major campaign promise "could not happen" in his lifetime. Jeh Johnson, a former secretary of homeland security under President Barack Obama, schooled Donald Trump on Sunday as he shared a lesson on “enforcement” in response to the president-elect’s mass deportation …
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
al.com | Annabel Rocha
Over a year ago, the current president-elect Donald Trump promised to shake up education as we know it. “One other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states,” he said in a video posted to social media in October 2023, outlining his vision for education if elected to a second term.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
al.com | Annabel Rocha |Denny Agassi
The late September heat bore down on hundreds gathered near Union Station in Washington, D.C., where the Gender Liberation Movement’s march brought together advocates fighting for both trans rights and reproductive justice. Among the speakers, Ash Orr stepped to the microphone with a story that challenged traditional movement boundaries: as a trans man from West Virginia who has had an abortion, his experience embodies the intersection of two increasingly threatened rights.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
reckon.news | Annabel Rocha
The late September heat bore down on hundreds gathered near Union Station in Washington, D.C., where the Gender Liberation Movement’s march brought together advocates fighting for both trans rights and reproductive justice. Among the speakers, Ash Orr stepped to the microphone with a story that challenged traditional movement boundaries: as a trans man from West Virginia who has had an abortion, his experience embodies the intersection of two increasingly threatened rights.
