APRIL 2015 JOINT EVALUATION: A major component of this program is evaluation.  Evaluation measures performance, demonstrates program benefits, and can help improve a program’s overall effectiveness.   For our advocates, a joint evaluation session was conducted. Those evaluated were comprised of the 2014 graduates Preventive Health and Civic Engagement Class and the current 2015 class. […]

Reproductive Justice Activists Oppose Latest Anti-Abortion Billboard Campaign Targeting Black Women in Georgia     A coalition of Atlanta-based reproductive justice and reproductive health organizations – organized by SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective & Trust Black Women have joined forces to defeat Pro-Life Across America ‘s anti-choice billboard campaign targeting Black women and Black […]

On this day in 1965, the nation watched as peaceful civil rights demonstrators were savagely beaten by police as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., a bloody sacrifice that historians credit with helping to usher in the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act days later. Fifty years later, with the nation […]

Women Watch Afrika, Inc. co-sponsored a Health Fair along with Clarkston Baptist Church which  was held on their premises.  The women from the class attended.  Booths provided information  on various health issues, e.g. diabetes, HIV aids, healthy eating, benefits of exercising.  Blood pressures were monitored.  Workshops on finance, heart disease and safety were held.  WWA […]

*Class lead by a Spelman College Intern

Marissa Alexander walks by her dad Raoul Jenkins and surrounded by her legal team and supporters after her sentencing in Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 27, 2015.   Photo by Bob Mack/Florida Times-Union/AP Marissa Alexander, the Florida mother whose case became a rallying cry for anti-racism activists and survivors of domestic violence, was released today after three […]

WWA Preventive Health Advocates Graduation  Held Sunday, September 28, 2014Honoring the health advocates that completed the Preventive Health and Civic Engagement Program Graduated Health Advocates 2014  The program also honored those who aided in the program including interpreters, aids, etc.. This event invited family and community members to  enjoy the ceremony, food and refreshments.For full […]