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Black Experience, Health, Stacy M. Brown

Black Maternal Health Week Highlights Alarming Disparities

by Stacy M. Brown April 17, 2019October 31, 2020

Black women in the United States face significant health care disparities, including the highest maternal mortality rate in the country.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (right) hosts the city's first Maternal and Infant Health Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Sept. 12. Cathy Hughes (left), Urban One, Inc. founder and chair, and Valerie B. Jarrett, former senior adviser for the Obama administration, participate in a conversation on perinatal health and racial disparities in birth outcomes. (Brigette Squire/The Washington Informer)

Community, Health

Summit’s Focus: High Mortality Rates of Black Mothers, Infants

by WI Guest Author September 19, 2018October 31, 2020

D.C. Council Mulls Maternal Mortality Review Committee

by WI Guest Author February 21, 2018October 31, 2020