Executive Director Danielle Atkinson (center) prepares to cut the ribbon and officially open Mothering Justice’s new space, surrounded by members of her team. Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance.
The Detroit-based nonprofit Mothering Justice — which centers its work on the needs and rights of mothers and families, from paid sick leave to affordable child care — hosted the grand opening of their new center in Detroit’s Eastern Market neighborhood on Thursday evening. Community members, friends and family members, and Mothering Justice staff gathered to share their hopes for the new, larger space.
“We are welcoming you here. Please come back, please visit, bring your friends,” Danielle Atkinson, the executive director of Mothering Justice, said in an opening speech. “This space is living with all of the energy of all the movements and all of the causes that we are working for, for the liberation that we will see in our lifetime.”…