Progress for Women
In 2008, South Shore resident Cheryl King found a lump in her right breast.
When she told a health professional at a South Side facility, he dismissed it, saying many African-Americans have lumps in their breasts. In the three months it took to get appointments and tests with other professionals to verify it was cancer, it had grown into a stage 2 tumor.
King, 59, is not alone. Racial disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and survival rates may have more to do with neighborhood than race, according to a new University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign analysis.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Robin L.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), with U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Boozman (R-Ark.), and U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), and Michael Burgess (R-Texas) introduced legislation to improve pregnancy outcomes and infant health by continuing research and education programs aimed at preventing preterm births.
What: Non-partisan Congressional Maternal Health Field Inquiry, in collaboration with Advocate Children's Hospital. The field inquiry is intended to shine an urgent light on the status of women's health in preparation for motherhood and after giving birth. The findings of the hearing will contribute to a larger federal reporting and factfinding efforts to bolster a national response to curtail maternal mortality and near deaths.
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A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation on Jan. 16 that would use broadband service data mapping to identify areas of the country where high rates of poor maternal health overlap with a lack of broadband service access.
Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and Susan Brooks, R-Ind., introduced the Data Mapping to Save Moms' Lives Act.
Washington, DC – On Friday, a bipartisan coalition, led by the co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, introduced the Protect Black Women and Girls Act of 2020 (H.R. 8196).
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WASHINGTON, DC - Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls Co-Chairs Reps. Robin L. Kelly (IL-02), Yvette Clarke (NY-09) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) today released the following statement regarding the collapse of Afghanistan’s government:
Washington, D.C. (July 22, 2021) - Today, co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, Congresswomen Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09), and Robin Kelly (IL-02) sent a letter to the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in response to the high level of scrutiny and penalization that has disproportionately impacted Black women during the 2021 Summer Olympic Games trials.
In celebration of Mothers' Day, Congresswoman Robin Kelly hosted a Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls event at the Matteson Holiday Inn honoring African American mothers and highlighting issues affecting their health and families.