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A Health Crisis for Black Mothers and Babies in America
Linda Villarosa, journalist who is the director of the journalism program at the City College of New York, and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, explains how and why black mothers and babies are dying at more than double the rate that white mothers and babies do — namely, because of systemic racism and bias in the health care system and in society.