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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

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