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For decades starting in 1907 Indigenous women and women of color across the country, including New Mexico, were forced or coerced into sterilizations without their informed consent. On Thursday, a coalition of Indigenous women’s reproductive rights advocates called on state lawmakers to create a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate the abuses.

New Mexico lawmakers are continuing to respond to widespread disparities in public schools based on race, class, ability and more. There’s a proposal to…