Black maternal health is a critical issue due to wide disparities seen between non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic Black ...

"You’re not given a guidebook on how to be a Black woman in America, but you learn from those who come before you." ...

For the first time in recorded U.S. history, the Black fertility rate has dropped below the White fertility rate. Yep, you ...

Black Maternal Health Week offers a powerful opportunity to pause, reflect, and recommit ourselves to the ongoing fight for maternal health equity.

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

That moment stayed with her for years. It ultimately became the foundation for her traveling exhibition, Twelve Tablecloths.

The murder trial of a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey, an unarmed black woman, in her ...

While society continues to progress in some areas, there’s still work to be done in creating a cultural ecosystem that truly ...

The vision of the Black women who founded the reproductive justice movement 31 years ago goes beyond policy—it calls for a cultural shift toward valuing the humanity of Black people.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration froze federal funding for several organizations across the United States that provide ...

Former US Rep. Mia Love, the first Republican black woman elected to Congress, has died, her family announced Sunday night. She was 49. “With grateful hearts filled to overflowing for the ...