Listen to Black Women - Our Voices, Our Agenda Black Women's Policy Agenda

Hey Sistas Hey, listen in on a fantastic convo Rochelle Jackson, your host and Advocacy Diva, had with Ms. Miracle Jones on all things Black Women. As a transplant to Pittsburgh from the south, Miracle spills the tea on what her experience has been like as a Black woman in Pittsburgh and gives some really great ideas around building a strategy and agenda for the Pittsburgh region to shift Black women from surviving to thriving.

We took a summer break but we are excited to re-launch this Fall with a fireside chat with The one, The only Ms. Deesha Philyaw - Pittsburgh transplant and author of the Secret Lives of Church Ladies! Deesha has been very vocal about her plans to leave the Pittsburgh region, recently deemed to be the worst city for Black women when compared to 89 other similar sized cities. Tune in to hear an amazing discussion of Deesha's experience as a Black woman in the Pittsburgh region and her thoughts on what the region needs to shift Black women from merely surviving to thriving. It's a discussion you don't want to miss!

What do Black women want the Biden/Harris administration to accomplish in its first 100 days? According to the NBC 2020 Election Exit Poll, 90 percent of Black women voted for the Biden-Harris ticket; and this was key to delivering the White House to the Democrats. So what should Black women demand in the upcoming months of the administration?  Black Women's Policy Agenda recently surveyed 300 Black women in the Pittsburgh region to determine the issues that matter most. BWPA Steering Committee member Barbara Johnson shares her experience as a Black woman in Pittsburgh and breaks down what Black women want to see in the first 100 Days of the Biden-Harris administration.  

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This episode explores why it is critical to center and elevate the voices of Black women if we want to make Pittsburgh a more equitable city, where people of all races and genders can not only survive but also thrive. Listen in on our roundtable discussion of  what it's like to be culturally silenced in a feminist world that prioritizes the needs of white women and in a society that draws attention to marginalized Black men. Our guest for this episode are two Black women from the BWPA Amplify Your Voice Advocacy Training Bootcamp, Ms. Dionna Rojas and Ms. Yolanda Andrews. 

Equal Pay Day is the day when women’s pay catches up to what white men made in 2020. Although Women’s Equal Pay Day is March 24th, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is not until August 3rd. Black women received 63 cents for every dollar paid to white men. That means it takes the typical Black woman 19 months to be paid what the average white man takes home in 12 months.

This is a huge concern Black Women’s Policy Agenda so listen in as we discuss this issue. Our roundtable guest are Sade Monsammy, interim executive director of Family Values at Work; Sabrina Saunders Mosby, CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh and Morgan Overton, BWPA Steering Committee member and vice chair of the Pittsburgh Gender Equity Commission.

Being a Black woman in America can be challenging to say the least, but a recent report showed that the quality of life for Black women in Pittsburgh is much worse than Black women in 89 other comparable cities. In this first episode, Listen to Black Women sits down with Tammy T. Thompson, executive director of Catapult Greater Pittsburgh. We’re talking about what it’s like to be a Black woman in Pittsburgh and what we should demand from the Biden-Harris administration and much, much more.



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