After all, young, pregnant Black women still have to fend off the surprisingly resilient, and supremely ugly “welfare queen” label, no matter how capable, resilient or educated we may be. Unfortunately, this country has a long history of separating Black women and their children, especially when they’re poor. When poor Black mothers try to give their children a leg up, they're regularly slapped down. In the antebellum South, where Black women weren’t even considered human beings to many, children were regularly ripped away from their mothers, just like Headley’s son. And we haven’t even touched on the Black women caught in the criminal justice system, waiting for trial in jail because they’re too broke to make bail.

Source: Huffington Post December 14, 2018 21:00 UTC