By Dianne Anderson Numbers and action speak louder than words, which explains why Black mothers and babies are still dying at over three to four times the rate of white women, and the data has hardly budged for decades. Maybe some new money trickling down from the state to the counties can help. Monique Amis, ...

By Dianne Anderson At first glance, local Black infant death statistics seem wrong, but it’s not a typo. It’s hard to imagine the reaction of policy makers if white babies were dying at the same alarming rate of Black babies in America. Typically, Black infants die double, often triple, the rate of white babies before ...