Remote maternal monitoring during and after pregnancy allows early detection of complications like preeclampsia, improving ...

The U.S. has a much higher rate of maternal mortality than other high-income countries, and the risks are especially acute ...

While maternal deaths in the U.S. declined in 2023, Black women still died at more than three times the rate of white women ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.

Join us for Black Mental Health Week 2025 from Monday, March 3 to Sunday, March 9. Celebrate joy as resistance, empower resilience, and reclaim power through community. Anti-Black racism is prevalent ...

recent data from the Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health reveals that Black adults in the United States experience higher rates of emotional distress compared to their White ...

Health care providers gave her Pitocin to induce labor ... Dukes-Harris’ story is one of many that highlight the challenges Black women face in America. Maternal care deserts, abortion bans, and the ...

This fact sheet relies on people self-identifying their race and ethnicity in the Census Bureau’s 2023 ACS to describe the nation’s Black population. The racial and ethnic categories used in census ...

A study published by the journal Chemosphere originally stated that a toxic chemical found in black plastic almost ... global treaties to protect human health and the environment from hazardous ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is massive, featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical ...

“Black maternal health has been front and center, and nobody’s letting that conversation go. I believe the District is a ripe place for transformation.” In D.C., Black birthing people ...