My mom was 9 months pregnant, working 12-hour shifts in Birmingham because we couldn’t afford for her to stop. When she started having severe pain, her boss refused to let her leave, threatening to fire her if she did. She tried to push through for the paycheck we desperately needed — but she collapsed and lost my baby brother, Gabriel.
Days later, her boss showed up at our apartment, not with sympathy, but threats. He tried to intimidate her into silence. What he didn’t know? She had recorded the moment he denied her medical leave.
That recording exposed not only his cruelty but years of workplace abuse and financial fraud. He was arrested. Other women came forward. And my mom received justice.
She turned her pain into purpose — now helping protect pregnant women from workplace mistreatment.
Sometimes justice doesn’t come immediately. But truth has a way of rising.
