The official theme for Black Maternal Health Week 2024 is “Our Bodies STILL Belong to Us: Reproductive Justice NOW!” In light of the steadily alarming rise of maternal mortality in the U.S., which recent data shows has been exacerbated by the pandemic; and amidst growing cases of clear neglect in care in hospital systems immediately after labor and delivery, BMMA continues to highlight and center culturally-congruent practices with a focus on Black Midwifery care and full-spectrum Black-led Doula care as sound, evidence-based solutions. Most importantly, these are practices and solutions that incorporate the true needs, wants and desires of Black women and birthing people.
- from Black Mamas Matter Alliance
Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z by 
Necessary conversations: understanding racism as a barrier to achieving health equity by 
Perspectives on midwifery and parenthood by 
Under the Skin: the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation by 
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by 
Birthing Outside the System: The Canary in the Coal Mine by 
At the Heart of It All?: Discourses on the Reproductive Rights on African American Women in the 20th Century by This is a scoped search using just Medical Subject Headings. Please connect with the clinical information librarian if you'd like to look at other databases and expand the scope.
("Black People"[Mesh] AND "Black or African American"[Mesh]) AND ("Maternal Health"[Mesh])
