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Viola Davis as Nanisca, a Dahomey leader, in The Woman King.

BY RACHEL BASS | The 80th Golden Globes is days away. Viola Davis is the only Black female actor nominated in the Motion Pictures-Drama category.

In The Woman King, Davis plays the Agojie general of an all-female warrior unit and embodies the fierceness of this leader, while delivering a performance characterized by maternal softness and emotional vulnerability—traits often reserved on screen for white femininity. While not nominated for any Golden Globes this year, Bridgerton received 15 Emmy Award nominations in 2022 and this spring another powerful Black woman graces the screen, Queen Charlotte. Bridgerton is an opportunity to reevaluate diversity, equity and inclusion on the screen. Casting people of color provides jobs to talented actors who would otherwise be overlooked, but mere “inclusion” in the frame is insufficient.

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A United States Postal Service employee with a parcel sorting machine in Melville, N.Y., on on Dec. 12, 2022. The Justice Department issued a legal opinion that USPS may deliver abortion pills to people in states that have banned or restricted abortion. (Alejandra Villa Loarca / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | The U.S. Postal Service can continue to deliver mifepristone and misoprostol, despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade, says the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. An archaic 19th-century anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Law, can’t stop the mailing of abortion pills.

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BY THE TEAM | Join us live (or RSVP and tune later!) to learn everything you need to know about abortion pills on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at 4 p.m. Pacific / 7 p.m. ET.

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Before Roe v. Wade, if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here?

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