Black women in the U.S. are more than three times more likely to die of a pregnancy-related cause than white women and are more than two times ... Maternal death outcomes drop, except for Black women.

Johns said prosecutors need to protect Black women and drop the charges against Ford. "Dignity Power is going to stand here, and we're going to protect her with our very lives," Johns said.

Report: Black imprisonment rates drop 70 percent for women, 48 percent for men since 2000. Researchers from The Sentencing Project hailed the downward trends as a positive step toward reducing ...

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Between 2013 and 2017, the death rate from breast cancer was 40% higher in black women than in white women, despite a slightly smaller incidence of breast cancer in black women.

The case touched off a national firestorm over the treatment of pregnant women, particularly those like Watts who are Black, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision ...

Maternal deaths drop — except for Black women. Story by Carly Mallenbaum • 1mo. ... The maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women rose from 49.5 to 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live ...