Black women have far higher maternal mortality rates than white women. Bringing more persons of color into the perinatal workforce, and requiring health care providers to complete training on implicit racial bias could help narrow the racial gap.
“It’s the university that really lets me be myself. And I think it’s because people feel that they can be themselves here,” Chancellor Reyes said while reflecting on his first semester at UMass.
ATLANTA — Kira Johnson was so excited to be a mother that she began planning her first son’s birthday party while still pregnant. The carnival-themed party she threw was epic: