Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley ·Updated July 12, 2022
Tyneeha Rivers vividly remembers the day she called home to tell her father she was pregnant nearly 26 years ago. 19 at the time, the young college student was terrified.
“The level of disappointment my parents had was almost crippling because they wanted more for me,” Rivers shared with Essence.“They did not want me to be just another statistic—another young Black girl from the
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