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Instead of celebrating what should have been the day her daughter turned 27, Tamika Palmer was in mourning.

Images of 14 female leaders of the suffrage and civil rights movements will be projected onto Mount Rushmore, including women who never got the right to vote themselves.

The Minnesota senator addresses her record on race and lessons on inequity she's learned from the pandemic.

“I don’t necessarily think people need to come to Juntos because they want to be at a protest,” Erika Guadalupe said. “I want Juntos to be a place that honors the whole person and not just these parts of ourselves that we have to fight so hard for people to see."

The incident is rooted in an idea, backed by generations of violence, that White womanhood is to be protected and that Black men are inherently criminal.

“To be able to celebrate our holidays in public, it took a long time to get here … Now we’re almost back to Square One," said Catzie Vilayphonh. "The way in which we celebrate traditions is to ourselves again.”

As states reopen their economies, some have yet to issue a specific plan for child-care facilities. Industry groups predict that a third to half of child-care centers may not reopen at all.

Jean-Pierre joins Symone Sanders in the role and will work on outreach and programming for Black voters — and Black women in particular.

Danielle Outlaw discussed the challenges of conducting law enforcement activity during a pandemic, and of balancing motherhood and her career.