CNN — Waves of emotion washed over DeJuana Thompson as she stood in the convention hall in Chicago last month watching Vice President Kamala Harris become the first Black woman nominated for the presidency by a major political party. Battleground North Carolina In...
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Women’s Rights Rally at Dowdy Park
The Hear Us Roar in ‘24 rally in Nags Head concluded on a powerful note as nearly100 participants gathered at Dowdy Park to advocate for women’s reproductive rights on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision reversing a woman’s constitutional right...
On the one-year anniversary of NC’s 12-week abortion ban, women ready for November
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of Senate Bill 20, legislation that banned abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks. Robinson said in 1975, when she was just 15 years old, she endured a “back-alley abortion” when she was growing up in rural...
New NC parent activist group wants to focus on real issues — not ‘manufactured’ ones
When North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a rare state of emergency for public education in May, it revved teams of parents across the state. They, too, wanted to push back against the impacts of what Cooper called the Republican legislature’s “schemes” to expand...
Petition launched for Rep. Tricia Cotham to resign
“We know that constitutionally there’s no way here in North Carolina constitutionally to recall an elected official,” Robinson, the Red, Wine & Blue N.C. program director said. “But we decided, you know, we wanted to make sure that voters in her district, really...
Op-Ed: How in good conscience can Rep. Tricia Cotham deny NC residents the abortion access she had?
Republicans in North Carolina have passed a sweeping abortion bill that further restricts access to abortion care — a bill filled with medical misinformation, misdirection and false narratives about abortion. In practice, it will ban medication abortion after 10...
Reproductive rights advocates tell legislators to reject more abortion restrictions
Janice Robinson recalled a scary time when she was a pregnant 15-year-old in South Carolina, almost 50 years ago. Her mother took her to have an abortion. Her mother took her not to a medical doctor, but someone unlicensed and working in secret. Robinson said she...
As candidates start filing for the CMS board, an intense campaign season is underway
On the left there’s Red Wine & Blue, a national group created to mobilize suburban women against what one organizer calls right-wing scare tactics. Janice Robinson, the state director, works with members in Mecklenburg and Union counties. "It’s like the latest...
Education advocates rally after Lt. Governor calls for banning certain books
This is an orchestrated culture war started by think tanks out of DC who are using this as a tactic to scare suburban moms and particularly white suburban moms into showing up at the polls and voting for right wing candidates up and down the ballot," said Janice...
Janice Robinson, NC program director for Red, Wine and Blue, on efforts by parents to push back against recent book banning
Radio Interview with Rob Schofield at NC Policy Watch. Listen here.