by Monica Williams | Sep 3, 2024 | Caregiving
April Anue Shipp picked up sewing as a young child. Over the years, the 62-year-old spent countless hours experimenting with paint and paper, mud and paint, fashioning quilts that honor Black icons such as Barack Obama, Rosa Parks and Josephine Parks. For the Emerge!...
by Monica Williams | Jun 26, 2024 | Health Equity, Maternal & Infant Health
The United States has a maternal and infant health crisis, with alarming mortality and morbidity rates for Black and brown moms and babies. The country has the highest rates of maternal deaths of any industrialized nation. In 2022 there were approximately 22 maternal...
by Monica Williams | May 29, 2024 | Caregiving
The New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative is thrilled to team up with the Race and Justice Reporting Initiative from the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne State University Law School on strengthening the pipeline of reporters...
by Monica Williams | Mar 27, 2024 | Caregiving
The United States has a maternal health crisis, with alarming mortality rates. Maternal deaths in the country have more than doubled over the course of two decades. Women of color are adversely affected. Research shows medical racism is happening to Black mothers...
by Monica Williams | Jan 19, 2024 | Health Equity
Black Americans face health care challenges rooted in racism at every stage of life. To kick off the collaborative’s reporting on health equity, the New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative invited journalist Kat Stafford to speak about her...
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