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“We have to avoid a pregnancy,” said Rosa, about the possibility of getting pregnant during the Covid-19 pandemic. “My feeling is that I don’t want to have a baby. What I went through in 2017 when I had Raíssa, God forbid.” Rosa lives in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Her first child, Raíssa, was born during the epidemic of Zika – a mosquito-borne disease that caused severe birth defects if contracted during pregnancy, among other effects. Pernambuco was one of the epicenters of Brazil’s Zika outbreak. Today, Brazil is an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with more t...

Credit Stephanie Wolf / WFPL The Louisville Urban League has received an $8 million grant, which will go towards a plan aimed at eliminating racial inequities in the city called “A Path Forward.” President and CEO Sadiqa Reynolds announced the funds Friday. She said the grant came from Blue Meridian Partners, a philanthropic organization out of New York. “I’m very appreciative of this but I’m also very excited to talk about our ability to be able to strategically focus on creating wealth building pathways and resources for Black families in the West End and across our city,” Reyno...