👓 Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving’s Story Explains Why | NRP

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1. Listened to ‘The Daily’: A Life-or-Death Crisis for Black Mothers by Michael Barbaro from nytimes.com

   Black mothers and infants in the United States are far more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts. The disparity is tied intrinsically to the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

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   On today’s episode:

   Linda Villarosa, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
   Simone Landrum, a young mother in New Orleans.

   Background reading:

   Black women in the United States are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as white women, and black infants are more than twice as likely to die as white babies. A growing body of research links this disparity to the toxic psychological stress experienced as a result of systemic racism.

   The story in this episode is a superb and emotional follow-on of an excellent NPR/ProPublica story I read back in December. We need more stories like this.
   I nearly had a panic attack while listening to this. The disparities in parts of America are so painful and distressing and we can, could, and should be doing more to improve them.

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2. Read I Was Pregnant and in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman by Tressie McMillan Cottom (Time)

   At every step of a fairly typical pregnancy for a black woman in the U.S., I was rendered an incompetent subject with exceptional needs.

   I just don’t have words.
   If you’re feeling depressed and angry though, I invite you to continue on with some stories I can’t help but collect: 

   The Daily: A Life-or-Death Crisis for black Mothers  

   Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth: Shalon Irving’s Story Explains Why 
   How Racism May Cause Black Mothers To Suffer The Death Of Their Infants

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