by Erin Backus | Jun 28, 2019 | News
Paige Pfleger | WOSU Tuesday marks the first-ever meeting of the Ohio Black Maternal Health Caucus. In Ohio, African American women are more likely to die in childbirth than white women. The Black Maternal Health Caucus aims to identify and address the factors that...
by Erin Backus | Jun 22, 2019 | News
Paige Winfield Cunningham | The Washington Post Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delivered her son yesterday in England, one of many developed countries where childbirth-related deaths have steadily fallen for decades. But the opposite is true in the United States. The...
by Erin Backus | Jun 15, 2019 | News
Roni Caryn Rabin | The New York Times African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States. African-American, Native American and Alaska Native...
by Erin Backus | Jun 1, 2019 | News
Melissa Reynolds | The Washington Post Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that rates of maternal mortality in the United States — already the highest in the...
by Erin Backus | May 26, 2019 | News
Elizabeth Dawes Gay | MTV We’re all familiar with the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” When it comes to Black maternal health in the United States, let’s adapt that to create a new African-American proverb, “It takes a village to save Black...
by Erin Backus | May 21, 2019 | News
Will Sherratt | Spectrum News AUSTIN, Texas — Maternal mortality rates are far too high here at home. “It is a persistent problem in Texas and across the United States,” says Parth Gupta, a University of Texas at Austin junior. Texas has high rate of maternal...
by Erin Backus | May 20, 2019 | News
Katie Kindelan | Good Morning America Mother’s Day is always a special celebration for Alia McCants, not only because she is the mom of twin 4-year-olds but also because becoming a mom nearly cost McCants’ her life. McCants, 35, was close to becoming a statistic in...
by Erin Backus | May 16, 2019 | News
Jane Claire Hervey | Forbes What does it look like when 500 millennial moms of color get together to talk business, parenting and philanthropy? Nikki Osei-Barrett and Simona Noce Wright can tell you. After joining forces to start District Motherhued in Washington DC...
by Erin Backus | May 14, 2019 | News
KHAL | Complex Ahead of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, just in case you forgot), MTV has kicked off their “Save Our Moms” campaign with a special PSA highlighting the rise of maternal mortality. The statistics are frightening: every day,...
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