“If you want to feed a person, you pay a man,” says Joy Altimare of EHE Health, one the sponsors of our first-ever…
The prospect of giving birth as a Black woman is currently as daunting as it is joyful. Black maternal health has…
A few weeks back, chart-topping emcee Megan Thee Stallion revealed via Instagram that she was shot in the foot on…
Nicole Thea, a 24-year-old YouTube star from London, and her unborn child passed away suddenly on Saturday morning. C…
A new report from the Chicago Tribune finds Black and Latinx birthing parents represented the vast majority of…
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest provider of sex education with more than 600…
A wave of research and media coverage over the last several years has ensured that the public knows more about…
Amber Isaac was a little more than a month away from her delivery date, and thrilled about the prospect of finally…
On Wednesday afternoon, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned that the coronavirus pandemic is “not gonna be over…
In a single season of playing altruistic attorney Alicia Johnson on ABC’s Mixed-ish, Tika Sumpter has quickly joined…
Despite its status as a “developed” nation, about 700 women will die each year from complications related to…
Black women’s ability to get adequate care during pregnancy and childbirth is an international issue.
Giving birth has always put women at risk, but for women giving birth in America, it has become a deadly…
Each year in the United States, more black women get sick or die during and after pregnancy than the year before.…
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As the fight to lower the black maternal mortality rate continues, two new studies provide new evidence of stark…
Bringing new life into the world can be a perilous journey for any woman, but especially for black women, who, accord…
Leo and LeeAnn Bienaime were like many first-time parents: apprehensive, unsure, and deferential to the advice of…
“I have taken trauma and turned it into triumph,” says Brittany “Tru” Kellman, founder of Jamaa Birth Village in…
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When Latham Thomas was preparing to give birth to her son, she knew she wanted the holistic birthing experience her…
When runner Allyson Felix read fellow Olympian Alysia Montaño’s explosive Mother’s Day op-ed in the New York Times,…