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Gaspard: Coming Together During Black History Month

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Stand with President Obama at http://my.democrats.org/State-of-the-Union

Planned Parenthood Action Fund Celebrates Social and Reproductive Justice with Eleanor Hinton Hoytt

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Planned Parenthood Action Fund sits down with Black Women's Health Imperative's president and CEO, Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, to celebrate Black History Month.

As a women's health advocate, she reflects upon the roots of her activism and commitment to social and reproductive justice, born from her experiences of the intersections of the civil rights movement and the struggle with gender inequality in America.

Favorite Quotes

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.