Photo courtesy of Tina Sherman. Tina Sherman is the National Director for the Maternal Justice Campaign at MomsRising, where she has dedicated her professional life to supporting and empowering moms ...

The Center for Racial and Health Equity generously supports MinnPost’s Race & Health Equity coverage; learn why. When Marlee James learned she was pregnant, she was determined to give birth at home.

Preserving a mom’s health means protecting an entire family. While many people are aware of medical risks post pregnancy, which adversely affect Black women, there is another big worry, and it’s a ...

Gialamas, founder of Trinity Maternal Wellness and The Mommas Circle, is the December 2025 winner of the Chick-fil-A Everyday Heroes award.

The new collaboration will provide a unified force to improve maternal health outcomes for all mothers, with a focus on the underserved As our organizations come together under the banner of ...

The state of Illinois is working to address maternal mortality, with a special focus on moms of color. The state of Illinois is working diligently to get good use out of the $118 million in funding ...

The broken gender dynamics of our workplaces has a simple solution: We need to give women more power. But redressing the gender dynamics in our homes is not so simple. Outside homes, society is ...

AUSTIN, Texas – It’s been months since Nakeenya Wilson signed the lease, but several times a week people still show up at her door confused. The building Wilson rents previously housed one of the ...

Black women remain at the highest risk of dying from pregnancy-related complications in the U.S., and their mortality rate was the only group that didn’t decline in 2023, according to new data from ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institute for Community Health Innovation, home to the Maternal and ...

Taken together, these findings underscore the relevance of fetal movement within the psychology of pregnancy, suggesting that ...