This Black Maternal Health Week, its time to end the Black Maternal Health Crisis

Whitney Alese
ZORA
Published in
4 min readApr 11, 2023

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The CDC recently released its report on maternal health, and the results are grim. According to the CDC, in 2021, there was a 40% increase in maternal death from the previous year. The U.S. rate for 2021 was 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, which is more than ten times the estimated rates of some other “high-income” countries. In a separate

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Whitney Alese
ZORA
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Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.