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Who Is Ashlee Jenae, the Black Woman Who Never Made It Back From Zanzibar?
Before the headlines, before the viral posts, before the community of Black women online started demanding answers, there was Ashlee Jenae. She was a woman…
Meridian Health's Vice President of Governmental and Community Relations discusses … – WGN-TV
Meridian Health's Vice President of Governmental and Community Relations discusses Black … News on Saturday morning to discuss Black Maternal Health … Source link
Ronald Spratling, who started community-based Holladay bank, dies at 93
1932-2026: Spratling’s Holladay Bank & Trust served customers for more than half a century, and still does as the Black-owned Redemption Bank. (Rick Egan |…
St. Paul principal aims to build community with new Afrocentric school – Star Tribune
Minnesota News You Can Use. Subscribe · St. Paul. St. Paul principal aims … Black community's longstanding call for greater school choice options. Source link
Black maternal health disparity continues
This week is Black Maternal Health Week, and gaps persist in healthcare for pregnant Black women. The latest CDC numbers released this year shows Black…
Cincinnati golf club started by Black women 50 years ago celebrates sisterhood
CINCINNATI — Fifty years ago, a group of Black women in Cincinnati formed a golf club at a time when access and inclusion in the…
Black Maternal Health Week April 11-17
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — According to the CDC, each year in the United States, hundreds of women die during pregnancy or in the year after….
In Florida and Georgia, midwife and nonprofit fight for Black maternal care
Jamarah Amani, Executive Director of the Southern Birth Justice Network, in front of the organization’s new bus for its Mobile Midwife Clinic. Alie Skowronski askowronski@miamiherald.com…
Stories of Black and Indigenous patriots come into focus as US remembers the American Revolution
LEXINGTON, Mass. – Charlie Price says he didn’t learn much about the American Revolution in school. He knew about George Washington, the Battle of Bunker…
SCI Breast Cancer and African Americans Conference
Black women in the United States continue to face disproportionately higher rates of breast cancer mortality, often being diagnosed at younger ages, at later stages,…
