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INFLUENCERS SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS ON TITLE X AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S IMPACT ON BLACK COMMUNITIES

Black community influencers, Maura Chanz, Andrea Lewis, Darnell Moore and Ashley Blaine Featherson sat down with Alencia Johnson, Director of Public Engagement at Planned Parenthood, to discuss the importance of sexual and reproductive services within the black community. Title X, the nation’s only birth control and reproductive health care program, is at risk of ending under…

ANNOUNCING BREAKTHROUGH’S NEW HEAD OF STRATEGY & PROGRAM!

He is “one of the most influential black writers and thinkers of our time—a beautiful, intentionally complex feminist activist writing liberatory futures,” says prominent activist Janet Mock. He has been named one of Ebony magazine’s Power 100, The Root 100 and Planned Parenthood’s 99 Dream Keepers. His new book, No Ashes in the Fire, is an O Magazine top book of the…

NO ASHES IN THE FIRE FEATURED IN DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS ON BOOK TV

CASSIUS editor-at-large Darnell Moore detailed his life and journey to becoming an activist. View the full video with a full transcription.

CASE STUDY: TARGETING MICRO COMMUNITIES

We partnered with Facebook to test how targeting micro-communities could build organic interest and offline connections. Powering Culture Change to End Campus Sexual Assault The campaign goal was to disrupt and transform the culture of sexual violence on campuses to make all students safer. By targeting students and people affiliated with universities through social media,…

Breakthrough’s THE G WORD Honored For Best Web: Activism In The 20th Annual Webby Awards.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lynn Harris Phone: 212.868.6500 Email: lynn@breakthrough.tv New York, NY —April 5 – Breakthrough announced today that its multimedia storytelling platform THE G WORD has been honored for Best Web: Activism in the 20th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts…

‘CONSENT APPLIES BEHIND A SCREEN TOO’: UCLA STUDENTS FIGHT ONLINE SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Daily Mail Clemence Michallon 2/16/2017 A group of UCLA students has launched a campaign against those who share unwanted nude pictures on social media, saying it is as harmful form as any other form of abuse when done without consent. The Bruin Consent Coalition, which seeks to prevent sexual violence on campus, released a series of…

THESE PHOTOS BRILLIANTLY FIGHT BACK AGAINST REVENGE PORN

Refinery29 Kasandra Brabaw 2/15/2017 Sharing nude photos and sex videos without permission counts as sexual harassment and abuse, and is illegal in some states. That should be obvious, but many people are somehow hazy on the principals behind what is commonly known as “revenge porn” — sharing intimate images of someone without their consent. In fact, a…

BREAKING THE SILENCE

Journal of College Admission Kathryn Drury Wagner 01/24/2017 College-age women are the demographic most likely to be victims of sexual violence, yet 80 percent of college students don’t report these incidents. What are colleges doing to address this issue, and what role does campus safety play in admission? When parents of today’s students were applying…

‘RAPE CULTURE’ IS MAINSTREAM

Indianapolis Star Joe Samalin 6/13/16 Stanford University student and Olympic hopeful swimmer Brock Turner was convicted on three felony counts for raping a 20-year-old woman on campus and was sentenced to only four months in a county jail because, as the judge put it, “A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.” Maybe…

THIS IS EVEN BIGGER THAN BROCK: WHAT WE CAN ALL DO TO DISMANTLE RAPE CULTURE

Huffington Post Phoebe Schreiner 6/11/2016 By sharing her heartbreaking story, “Emily Doe” held up a cultural mirror for us all to see. Every harrowing detail gave us an ugly glimpse of the culture we live and breathe every day. In that mirror, we see the social and institutional norms and practices that enabled her rape, blamed…