Comedian and actress Jasmin Brown and former NFL quarterback Cam Newton expanded their family in 2025 with the birth of their ...

A lurid tidbit of historical trivia making the social media rounds since the late 2000s supposedly reveals a shocking example of racist cruelty in the United States' past, namely profit-seeking white ...

Everything that Lena Burgess feared would go wrong did when she delivered her first child in May. She was diagnosed with preeclampsia during labor, a pregnancy-related high blood pressure disorder, ...

A recent federal decision to change how newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine has raised concerns among Missouri health leaders, who warn the shift could put Black and low-income babies at higher ...

Not being heard, not being taken seriously and being misunderstood by health care providers often describes a routine medical visit for many Black parents. For Black parents of young children, that ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It should be one of the happiest times in a woman’s life, but for some it can be one of the most life-threatening. Black women have the highest maternal mortality ...

Fewer Black babies live to see their first birthday in Ohio when compared to white babies, the Ohio Department of Health’s most recent report shows. Ohio’s overall infant mortality rate was 7.0 in ...

As a Black mother, Hope Williams-Burt always felt as if she had to fight to get her doctors to listen to her. One health care worker even criticized the way she spoke, telling her that she needed to ...

Every August, for the past 22 years, Alesha Martin-Lane has mourned the loss of her daughter Tayler, who died at just five ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It should be one of the happiest times in a woman’s life, but for some it can be one of the most life-threatening. Black women have the highest maternal mortality ...