Addressing the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The NBEC is a collective creating solutions that optimize Black maternal and infant health through training, policy advocacy, research, and community-centered collaboration.
This episode of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics is in partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Planned Parenthood is a health care provider, education and advocacy center delivering reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls, to another podcast episode. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we are joined by two amazing women to discuss Black women's healthcare. |
| 1:08.0 | Carmen Green, the Vice President of Research and Strategy at the National Birth Equity Collaborative, |
| 1:13.9 | and one of my friends, Melanie Newman, Senior Vice President of Communications and Culture |
| 1:19.4 | at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. |
| 1:22.9 | Ladies, how are you? |
| 1:24.2 | Thank you for joining us today. |
| 1:26.2 | Thank you for having us. Doing well. Thank you. Glad to be here. |
| 1:31.5 | So I just love seeing black women who are all about supporting, uplifting other black women, |
| 1:38.4 | especially when it comes to health care. So first question is, what brought each of you to this work? Melanie, I'll start with you. |
| 1:46.8 | Melanie and I used to work at the DNC together. She came down for the convention in Charlotte, |
| 1:52.0 | and I've just been able to see her do so many badass, amazing things, like just your communication |
| 1:59.3 | strategy, everything that you do, you're amazing. |
| 2:01.6 | So what made you fall in love with this work? |
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