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Mary Turner (c. 1885 [ 11] – 19 May 1918) was a young, married black woman and mother of three—including an unborn child—who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having protested the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day before in Brooks County. [ 16] She was eight months pregnant, and her baby ...
Fear of discrimination and dying during pregnancy and childbirth may lead pregnant Black women to prefer seeing a Black obstetrician, a small study suggests.. Researchers at the University of ...
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [ 1][ 2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the ...
There have been nude sculptures of heavily pregnant women by, among others, Damien Hirst, with The Virgin Mother (now at Lever House in New York) [50] and Verity, 2012, [51] and Ron Mueck, whose Pregnant Woman (2002) is a 2.5-metre-tall sculpture of a naked pregnant woman clasping her hands above her head, now in the National Gallery of ...
Laurel Gourrier, 35, is a doula and one of the women behind the podcast Birth Stories in Color, which she co-hosts with Danielle Jackson.Her first child was delivered in a hospital, an experience ...
Lack of access and poor quality of care for pregnant Black women are leadings factors, but research has also shown that bias and stereotyping of people of color can impact their health outcomes, too.
Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. " Barefoot and pregnant " is a figure of speech most commonly associated with the idea that women should not work outside the home and should have many children during their reproductive years. The phrase "barefoot and pregnant" seems to have been introduced in the early twentieth century by the American ...
COVID-19 has changed the birth plans of pregnant women around the world. For Black women like me, that upheaval can be dangerous. A Birth Plan Can Save Black Women’s Lives