"What actually happened is they wanted to test a formula out on my daughter." ...

Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will prompt change.

The death of a Black midwife following complications from giving birth has renewed difficult questions surrounding inequities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northwest Indiana hospital fired a nurse and physician after an Illinois woman and her husband were sent home, forcing her to ...

Mercedes Wells says she was discharged from an Indiana hospital while in active labor and gave birth on the roadside minutes later. The couple claims no doctor evaluated her during her six-hour ...

Hermina lives in the Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria, and Sabera is a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Though they live in vastly different places, the struggles they have ...

Tiana Lashae created the “Black Birth Joy” project in 2024 to amplify positive Black maternal health stories through ...