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Resilience and joy Despite their challenges, the women described their resilience as they navigate maternal healthcare and motherhood. Soyal Smalls, 37, from Poughkeepsie, New York, who was pregnant when Reuters photographed her in August 2022, believes increasing the number of Black healthcare providers would help Black mothers, along with having more hospitals with birthing units […]
[1/14] Holistic doula Ciara Clark, 34, receives a kiss from her mother Elle T Parker, 53, while she labors in her birthing pool at her home birth in Toms River, New Jersey, U.S., September 11, 2022…. Read more TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, May 12 (Reuters) – Ciara Clark, a Black doula, labored for more than […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Labor and elected federal officials held a media briefing today to discuss the release of a report by the department’s Women’s Bureau on how caring for family has long-term impacts on a mother’s lifetime earnings. Women’s Bureau Director Wendy Chun-Hoon and U.S. Representatives Gwen Moore, Susan Wild and Shontel Brown […]
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Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America. In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially segregated communities with high levels of gun violence. Research has suggested that
(CNN) A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own. The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests […]
The nation is grappling with yet another year of alarming surges and widening disparities in maternal mortality. In the United States, mothers and birthing people are dying at higher rates than in other high-income countries — and these deaths are largely preventable. Black women suffer the highest rates of all racial and ethnic groups in […]
Whitney Anderson sharing her story of tumult and triumph Tuesday in giving birth three years ago to help state legislators kick off Black Maternal Health Care Week during a news conference at the Legislative Office Building. Paul Hughes Republican-American . . .
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 […]
A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter century, accumulating nearly $200,000 in the process, federal prosecutors said. The man, Reginald Bagley, 62, of Dellwood, Mo., pleaded guilty on Thursday to a felony charge of stealing money belonging to the United States, the