Moms
Baldi is a student at the University of Washington majoring in public and global health and is originally from Rancho Santa Fe. Black women are 50 percent more likely to have a preterm birth than White women. Throughout United States history, Black women have long faced a disproportionate risk of preterm births, or birth before […]
Despite being an economic leader, the U.S. ranks in the top 10 countries with the highest rates of preterm birth in the world. Being born preterm, or earlier than 37 weeks, puts a baby at risk of serious disability and death and is the leading cause of death for infants globally. A new study finds […]
Mackenzie and Ryan Edwards The Sun US/ MEGA Teen Mom alum Ryan Edwards seemingly has the support of his estranged wife, Mackenzie Edwards, after he was released from jail. Ryan, 35, and Mackenzie, 26 . . .
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The little girl didn’t care that her mother had just lost an important game. She didn’t care about the league table, the Golden Boot race or the San Diego Wave’s long winless streak either. None of that matters when you’re 3 years old. “She wants to kick the ball around, she wants […]
PHILADELPHIA, June 30 (Reuters) – Top rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Friday addressed the national conference of Moms for Liberty, appealing to the conservative parents-rights advocacy group with vows to bolster education and keep discussion of gender identity out of the classroom. “Don’t mess with America’s moms,” former President Donald Trump told […]
By CLAIRE SAVAGE (Associated Press/Report for America) LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Dressed in her Sunday best — pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu — Crystal Martinez’s 4-year-old daughter proudly presents her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son nestled on her lap, laughing in delight, Martinez […]
Do you know what’s better than one mom? The television mothers who helped raise us with their warm hearts and universal Black momisms. No matter what show you watched, you knew mom was not one of your little friends; the idea of upsetting her sent literal chills up your spine, and no, we do not […]
COLFAX — Everyone here knew the data: Black women are three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than white women. And they knew the cause: hard-to-solve social and structural problems in health care. Their goal: Get to the source of the problem to help save the lives of Black mothers and their […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The day after Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves reversed course and said he wants the state to let women have a full year of Medicaid coverage after birth, another Republican leader pledged not to block a vote on the issue. House Speaker Philip Gunn said Monday that he . . .
The ‘Rent For Moms’ campaign is geared, specifically, towards helping more than 50 Black single mothers pay rent across the U.S. SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — As a Black single mother, Michal Stafford is always striving to make ends meet. Stafford has three children. She, along with her children, moved from Oakland to Elk Grove for […]