Black maternal mortality in the United States remains alarmingly high—Black women are still more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women. At the same time reproductive injustice is happening across the country. The impact reverberates through children, families and communities of Color, impacting generations, and thus the community as a whole. Still there is hope and still people rise! Dr.
Roberta Suzette Hunte, PSU scholar in the school of social work, Black Studies, and Women Gender and Sexuality Studies and organizer of Black Futures Initiative for Perinatal Health (https://blackfuturesinitiati.wixsite.com/blackfutures/about), will shed light on the maternal care crisis response for reproductive justice. This is happening around us now in Portland and the State of Oregon including legislative action and Birth Village creations as examples of resilience.

country. The impact reverberates through children, families and communities of Color, impacting
generations, and thus the community as a whole. Still there is hope and still people rise! Dr.
Roberta Suzette Hunte, PSU scholar in the school of social work, Black Studies, and Women
Gender and Sexuality Studies and organizer of Black Futures Initiative for Perinatal Health
(https://blackfuturesinitiati.wixsite.com/blackfutures/about), will shed light on the maternal care
crisis response for reproductive justice. This is happening around us now in Portland and the
State of Oregon including legislative action and Birth Village creations as examples of resilience.

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