For decades, frustrated birth advocates and medical professionals have tried to sound an alarm about the ways medicine has failed Black women. Historians trace that maltreatment to racist medical practices that Black people endured amid and after slavery.
Black women are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race. Black babies are also more likely to die, and also far more
By Kat Stafford | Photos by Wong Maye-e and video by Noreen Nasir | The Associated Press Angelica Lyons tears up while recalling her birthing experience