.Mrs. Dow Jones tells Akilah Johnson, “Financial journeys are different for everyone, but I would say for a majority of people they're living paycheck to paycheck, they have student loans, they have private loans, they don't have emergency funds and they're just looking to get by.'

After traumatic pregnancies, Mimi Bingham needed another way. Then she discovered a coalition of Black birth workers who forever changed her life. Akilah Johnson on the story of Mimi & the birth workers fighting a nationwide maternal health emergency🎧⬇️ washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-…

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In 2023, I was interviewed about my high risk pregnancy for this article on America’s Black
maternal health crisis. May we continue to fight for visibility and education by telling our stories.

Thank you The Washington Post and Akilah Johnson for empowering me to tell mine. ❤️

Black women are “more likely to experience the discrimination and disrespect that contribute to maternal deaths,” from @WashingtonPost's Akilah Johnson, making ACHP's The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded work addressing how toxic stress impacts Black maternal health more urgent.
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Rick Berke The Washington Post STAT Agree with your view on stories hidden in plain sight, like the Post's awesome life expectancy series. The WSJ lead legacy story is terrific, too -- thanks for surfacing such good stuff. cc: FrancesSteadSellers Joel Achenbach Akilah Johnson Laurie McGinley

Hope you'll also take the time to read Akilah Johnson's powerful story on how the fear of death often times shadows the joy of birth for Black mothers across the U.S. wapo.st/41uaE6B

Important thread. Read this.

7/”For some Black women, the fear of death shadows the joy of birth” -30-

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6/ “She knows the ache of losing a baby. Her calling is to help other Black moms.”

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.Akilah Johnson: She knows the ache of losing a baby. Her calling is to help other Black moms.
wapo.st/3tj9Qol The Washington Post

Appreciate The Washington Post continuing to shine a light on what Tamika Auguste MD (She/Her) and Joia Crear Perry refer to as “a crisis of disrespect” for Black #birthing people

#Doulas can bridge gaps and Mahmee is proud to help facilitate, but clinicians must evolve

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