Pamela Merritt blogs as Shark-Fu at AngryBlackBitch.com. Merritt studied Anthropology at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Brandeis University. Merritt works as an Online Organizer and New Media Specialist in Missouri, a proud mentor through Big Sisters, and teaches at several shelters in St. Louis. Pamela Merritt is a member of the Women’s Health Leadership Network at the Center for American Progress and is a founding member of the Trust Black Women Partnership. She is a staff writer for RH RealityCheck, a contributor to Feministing.com and Shakespeare's Sister, and a featured contributor on National Public Radio’s (NPR) “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin. Merritt’s writing has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian UK, and Salon. In 2008 AngryBlackBitch.com was named one of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs by The Guardian UK.
This past weekend the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the stage and tried to sell this nation a payday loan as the payment solution on that check her uncle spoke of 47 years ago.
Five days on the ground talking to voters in Anchorage, Alaska really drove home what’s at stake for reproductive justice, voters and for Alaskan teens.
When anti-choice organizations charge that the most dangerous place for a Black baby is in a Black woman’s womb, they are attacking Black women’s capacity to parent and make health care decisions.
One would think that child welfare would be a top priority in a state where politicians running for office regularly list their tradition family values among their qualifications, but that is not the case.
Faces and names may change in the Missouri legislature, but legislative attempts to restrict access to abortion services remain an unfortunate constant.
Research finds that systemic community factors adversely affect the health outcomes and life options of African-American and Latino boys and young men.
More than half of sexually active men in the United States will have some form HPV at some point during their lifetime. Yet many don’t know the HPV vaccine was recently approved for men.
What happens when a clinic is reborn with the help of a Catholic University? In the case of Casa de Salud, the hope is more for reincarnation than for resurrection.
The same web site that claims reproductive health care providers lie to and manipulate women sends them to crisis pregnancy centers that provide inaccurate medical information.
A legacy of the Civil Rights movement is the struggle for rights and access without fear of violence. But those who oppose abortion rights are not fighting for anything; rather they are fighting against women’s freedom.
