⚠️➡️ More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are PREVENTABLE. Black women 👑🕊are 3x more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.
#SayTheirNames 👑 #ProtectBlackMothers 👑 #BlackMaternalHealth 👑 #BlackMaternalMortality 👑

#blackmaternalmortality #blackmaternalmortalityrate #JudgeGendaHatchett #InsideEdition #KyiraJohnson www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Ez...

youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0tzenw9hs #blackmaternalmortality #blackmaternalmortalityrate #JudgeGendaHatchett

Black women are being let down by maternal healthcare - these are all the ways it could be better | Tinuke Awe New evidence confirms Black mothers are far more at risk than their white peers. After my own traumatic experience, I’m not surprised, says Five X More co-founder Tinuke Awe

And #BlackMaternalMortality is a GLOBAL crisis. See the UK for starters:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Had A Traumatic Birth Experience? You're Not Alone. | Essence The maternal mortality crisis gets the spotlight—but what about the Black women who survive childbirth, yet lose a part of themselves in the process?

We talk a lot about the #BlackMaternalMortality crisis—and rightfully so. But what about the trauma that Black birthing people survive?

This ESSENCE piece lifts the voices of Black mothers who lived thru traumatic birth experiences—and are still healing from the scars. #BMHW2025

@booker.senate.gov College students are changing their majors due to changes in education and research funding for #environmental and #equity, etc. like programs working to reduce #blackmaternalmortality and #blackinfantmortalityrates in the US. Brighter futures are being erased overnight! 😢😢#Hope

PART #3: #BlackHistoryMonth Serena Williams' fame, wealth, and winning 4 Olympic gold medals, 23 Grand Slams, and 6 US Opens didn't stop her from experience near lethal medical racism.

#BlackHistory #Disability #BlackSky #DisabilitySky #Diversity #MedicalRacism #BlackMaternalMortality #Misogynoir

I pray for Black birthing women in America. And Sen. Bill Cassidy can fuck off.

Though this Business Insider article is from 2022, the prevailing GOP culture makes addressing #blackmaternalmortality more critical than ever. And I wrote about it...

nursing.uci.edu/news-events/...

Just in time for #BlackHeritageMonth, my own Black history story of the transgenerational impact of my maternal grandmother's postpartum death.

Because her life still matters.

Read the article at nursing.uci.edu/news-events/...

#blackmaternalmortality