Black Women for Wellness To Host Free Mammogram & Manicure Event in Partnership with Watts Healthcare Corporation, Blue Haven, Every Woman Counts and McCarty Church.
Black Women for Wellness hosted its inaugural Environmental Justice fellowship from 2024-2025, hosting 2 fellows for 9 months to support the development of future environmental justice leaders in a way that is community-based and centers reproductive health.
As we approach Black Breastfeeding Week, we reflect on a complex legacy—one shaped by resilience, resistance, and deep cultural strength. This week is more than awareness; it’s a movement to reclaim a tradition and affirm that Black families deserve equitable support in breastfeeding, birth, and infant health.
In a world that demands Black women constantly push beyond their limits, the 2025 Reproductive Justice Conference centered a powerful theme rooted in self-determination — a commitment to protecting our bodies, honoring our choices, and unapologetically reclaiming our rest while balancing activism.
Black Women for Wellness, The Descendants Project, and Break Free from Plastic held a press conference during the INC-5.2 Global Plastics Treaty negotiations at the United Nations campus in Geneva, Switzerland.
Black Women for Wellness (BWW) will host its 26th annual Reproductive Justice Conference, Minding Our Own Black Business: Reclaiming Rest, Resilience and Liberation, on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at The California Endowment Center in Los Angeles, starting at 8:00 a.m. PT.
We’ve taken time to sit with the Sean “Diddy” Combs verdict. We’ve listened, mourned, raged, and reflected. Now, we are ready to speak from the heart.
On Tuesday, June 24 at 11:00 AM, Black Women for Wellness (BWW) and 27 of California’s leading human rights and social justice organizations hosted a powerful press conference in Leimert Park to deliver a unified response to the recent ICE raids and escalating military presence across Los Angeles neighborhoods.
