On Juneteenth weekend, Black activists march for abortion rights
Black abortion rights leaders say reproductive justice and racial justice are inextricably connected.
As activists gathered in a park just a short walk from the U.S. Supreme Court, Loretta Ross remembered the days before the Roe v. Wade decision.
"Fifty two years ago when I was a first-year student at Howard University, I had an abortion," Ross told the crowd, gathered on an unseasonably cool June afternoon. "It
