Black Maternal Matters

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our Body Politic, Farai Chideya looks back at our conversations around Black Maternal health. First, she speaks with Aftershock co-director Tonya Lewis Lee and film subject Shawnee Benton-Gibson. Then, we hear from Dr. Rachel Hardeman about racism as one of the root causes of health disparities in the U.S. After, author Anna Malaika Tubbs talks about her book The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. We round out the show with Tressie McMillan Cottom who speaks about her horrific labor and delivery experience.

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1:01.0	This is Our Body Politic.
1:03.3	I'm Farai Chidea.
1:05.0	In this show, we're remixing some of our best segments around the topics of motherhood and
1:09.3	maternal mortality.
1:12.4	Why? Because moms,
1:17.2	mom figures, and fill in moms make the world go around and we need to celebrate as well as protect them. Don't worry, dads, we see you too, but this one's for the ladies. When it comes to
1:23.4	maternal mortality, the truth is the numbers don'tode well for black moms. In the United States,
1:29.2	black women pregnant and giving birth die at a rate three times that of white women. The film
1:35.2	Aftershock, co-directed by Tanya Lewis Lee and Paula Eizelt, won a special jury award at the Sundance
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