Black History Month: Honoring Black Grand Midwives and Supporting Black Midwives Today
This Black History Month, The ACNM Midwives of Color Committee (MOCC) and Black Midwives Caucus want to uplift and celebrate the importance of Black...
Black History Month: We Want To Tell Your Story
The theme for #BlackHistoryMonth 2022 is Black Health and Wellness, so ACNM will be celebrating and honoring the contributions of Black midwives and their...
Black History Month: Reneau House-Diallo, DNP, APN, CNM
The theme for #BlackHistoryMonth 2022 is Black Health and Wellness, so ACNM is celebrating and honoring the contributions of Black midwives and their impact...
ACNM and the Midwives of Color Committee (MOCC) Celebrate Black History Month!
As we celebrate Black History Month, we pay tribute to the struggles and achievements of African American Midwives and their contributions that have shaped...
Improving Inequities in Prenatal Screening: Time to Modernize Guidelines
Professional guidelines can have a profound impact on reproductive health. In many cases, prenatal genetic screening is often only recommended for specific groups or...
Results of the 2019-2020 Midwifery Clinical Education Empowerment Project
In November 2019, ACNM and the Developing Families Center (DFC) introduced the Midwifery Clinical Education Empowerment Project. The vision of this project was to...
Launching Perinatal Health Equity: A Quality Improvement Project
The Bumpy Road to Perinatal Health Equity
The Paradox
In 1963, during “A Talk to Teachers,” James Baldwin described the paradox of education as, “precisely at...
Maternal Mortality Update: A Closer Examination of Racial Disparities and Possible Solutions
I recently attended the fifth annual (and first virtual) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) MMRIA User Meeting, which brought together individuals from...
Implications of Race Among Pregnant People Experiencing Housing Instability
The relationship between housing instability and poor health outcomes has been extensively documented (Cutts, Coleman, Black, Chilton, Cook, de et al., 2015a; Levinson, Group...
Failing Mothers of Color – Yet Again!
The COVID-19 crisis adds a new dimension to the maternal mortality crisis for New Yorkers. In New York City, Black women are eight times...