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This piece from the Center for American Progress discusses the history of the intersection between race and policing in the United States and offers policy recommendations to improve the relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.

This report situates women of color in the United States today, their current electoral impact, and the methods being used to disenfranchise people of color throughout the country and explores connections between this voter suppression and reproductive justice.

This report presents a new vision of reproductive rights that broadens the current discourse beyond the stagnant abortion debate. Article includes principles of reproductive justice and provides an expanded definition of reproductive rights that equally embraces the rights to have or not have children with a partner of one's choosing and in a time and manner that honors one's conscience and life circumstancesÑand by placing abortion within its appropriate context as one of a wide range of important reproductive rights issues.

It includes excerpts from 'Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice' and examines how, starting within their communities, these womenÑLatina, African American, Native American, and Asian AmericanÑhave spearheaded the fight for jurisdiction over their own bodies and reproductive destinies. The authors address the wider needs of their communities, stressing the urgent need for innovative strategies that push beyond the traditional base and goals of the mainstream pro-choice movementÑstrategies that are broadly inclusive while being specifically effective.