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In Hama, 15 different families had come forward to claim the bodies as their own.

Nine years after imposing a statewide alcohol ban to curb addiction, domestic violence, and financial ruin among its poorest families, Bihar - India's poorest state - still struggles to gauge the policy's effectiveness.

“To be a Queen Mother, one makes a pact with Mother Earth. They serve the world and all that is nourished by her—and in return, their families are blessed.”

She did our family’s laundry, but also that of some White families, as many other Colored women did to make ends meet.

As women increasingly became the chief money earners, they also increasingly became the heads of their families.