Pregnant While Black
Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America

Another read for class - similar to Under the Skin and Chasing the Scream, I just struggle with books that try to translate highly complex literature and statistics into easily digestible content for the everyday reader. So much of it reads as sensationalized. A really important topic, but I didn’t......more

This was an amazing book. I already knew that our maternal mortality rate in America is bad and worse for POC but the stats are staggering. I also did not understand why. The last few years, I have been trying to become more socailly aware and the institutional racism is so hard for me to process. I......more

While I am no where near becoming pregnant , I do hope to become a mother one day. Unfortunately, learning about the black maternal health crisis in detail and the disparities that black women are likely to face is part of the journey. There is a ray of hope all the same , “the black martenal health......more

Dr. Monique Rainford does an amazing job putting into word the disparities black women face in health care. As someone studying in social work, I think reading literature like this is imperative to being more culturally competent and to be able to better advocate and empathize with the new mothers I......more

I really appreciated Dr. Rainford's book highlighting the key facts and figures surrounding the black maternal mortality disparity. I am a social worker in a graduate program and have been drawn to this issue after it became more salient to me through work with clients; I've written research papers......more