Our Health

When Knowledge Is a Lifeline: What Black Expectant Mothers Should Expect—and Demand—in Care On January 2, the maternal health community lost Dr. Janell Green Smith, a certified nurse midwife and tireless advocate for Black maternal health. She died after delivering her first child. She was 31 years old. This is not just a tragedy. It is a warning. Black women in the United States are far more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This gap shows up at e

A quiet war is being waged to undo the very foundation of black life in America. It is methodical. It is legal. And it is dangerous. To be black in this country today is to exist inside a system that is actively working to unmake us — not with chains or fire, but with budgets, executive orders, bans, and algorithms. This system is not attacking us with force — it’s erasing us with policy. Not through spectacle, but through strategy. This is not reform. This is not politics. T