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Tatyana Ali Talks About Improving Maternity Care For Black and Indigenous Mothers

Tatyana Ali has become a leading voice for maternal health equity.

Black maternal health disparities focus of Toledo forum

Black women continue to face disproportionate risks in pregnancy and childbirth, with higher rates of complications and preventable loss than their white counterparts.

Actor Tatyana Ali is advocating for Black and Indigenous maternal health

Actor Tatyana Ali says her healing journey after a traumatic childbirth has inspired her advocacy for Black maternal health, including support for midwives, doulas and other birth...

The Black Wellness Edit: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Becoming A NICU Mom

A Black mother's honest journey through NICU and the vital lessons for new parents of NICU babies.

Walmart heir Olivia Walton didn’t get the postpartum care she needed. Now, she’s investing $100M to halve the U.S. mater...

Olivia Walton, who founded Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, is using “every tool in the toolbox” to improve maternal health—and called on employers to ramp up their benefits.

Black women are more likely to experience pregnancy trauma and have their pain ignored

Black mothers in the U.S. are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Actress Tatyana Ali became an advocate after her own awful experience giv...

Everything to Know About Mayor Mamdani’s New Maternal Health Doula Initiative

Mayor Mamdani's program expands support for Black and Latino families with free doula services across the city.

Tatyana Ali’s experience highlights an often-overlooked part of Black maternal health — the need to get up and bust a mo...

Black experts in physical and dance movement therapy break down how movement is vital during postpartum recovery. When Tatyana Ali

Broward Healthy Start Coalition Supports Maternal Health Initiatives

Campaign promotes free, confidential access to maternal health, behavioral health and early childhood resources through Connect Program   BROWARD COUNTY  — Broward Healthy Start Co...

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America pledges $100M to cut US maternal mortality rate in half

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the U...

Here’s Why Transgender Families Need To Be Included In Maternal Health Conversations [Op-Ed]

Check out this excerpt from the forthcoming book, 'The Black Papers: A Policy Agenda for Black Liberation in the 21st Century.'

Hidden Pregnancy Resources Every Black Parent Should Know (By Trimester)

Get free doulas, baby gear, and expert medical advice. This guide reveals hidden pregnancy resources every Black parent needs to thrive. Read more!

MedCity FemFwd: How Midwives Can Support the Maternal Health Crisis

In this episode, we’re joined by Amanda Shafton, practicing CNM and national director of midwifery at Ob Hospitalist Group. We discuss the benefits of physician/midwifery collabora...

Why Wellness Has Become the Ultimate Luxury

Black women are redefining luxury through wellness, rest, and presence beyond material wealth.

Maternal mental health and the myth of endurance

I’d really like to talk with my fellow women. There is a courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts where a jury is deciding whether a mother is criminally responsible for the deaths of...

Maryland artist creates Black maternal health flag out of hospital baby blankets

A Maryland artist turned familiar pink, blue and white hospital blankets for newborn babies into a powerful call to action. Lex Marie, of Prince George’s County, used the blanke...

Public Health Begins With Listening: Lessons From Zambia and Malawi on Reducing Maternal Mortality

In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent. Its success relied not on...

Maternal health advocates await key Texas report on pregnancy-related deaths

Abide Women’s Health Services says up-to-date information about pregnancy-related and maternal deaths can be critical to preventing future deaths. “They can have education, inco...

Kamala Harris, Abdul El-Sayed Put Black Maternal Health at Center of Michigan Senate Race

At Birth Detroit on Tuesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris joined Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for a conversation with medical providers and women’s health ad...

‘Too many funerals’: Wisconsin’s Black infant mortality crisis is harming generations

Why Open Conversations About Breast Health Matter For Black Women

Ladies—Black women specifically—we need to have several serious conversations.

There’s a PPD Screening Problem in America, and Moms Know It

Postpartum depression screenings can catch mental health struggles, but inconsistent care and gaps in follow-up can leave moms without the support they need.

There’s a PPD Screening Problem in America, and Moms Know It

Postpartum depression screenings can catch mental health struggles, but inconsistent care and gaps in follow-up can leave moms without the support they need.

Louisiana Activists Draw Links Between Petrochemical, Climate Harm to Maternal Health

Click to expand Image Kaitlyn Joshua with her daughter, Lauryn, age 5, outside their hom...