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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Obstetrics is the dominant maternal health practice, while cultural narratives overshadow the Black herstory of midwifery with one that is white, wealthy, and/or alternative/“crunchy.”.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

We must begin to replace the vast architecture of private supports that women construct around their loved ones with a robust health and human services infrastructure capable of supporting the needs of all families. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no.