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Our work is grounded in the human rights, reproductive justice, and birth justice frameworks, and incorporates respectful maternity care tenets. The Black Mamas Matter Alliance serves as a national voice and coordinating entity for stakeholders advancing maternal health, rights, and justice. BMMA provides technical assistance, trainings, and capacity building for grassroots organizations, maternity care service providers (e.g. clinicians, midwives, doula networks and community health workers), academia, and the public health industry. We foster connections and collaborations between mainstream entities and Black women-led initiatives. We recognize that maternal mortality and morbidity is a global concern and we frame domestic maternal health policy within the global context.

We intentionally center Black women’s leadership. Black women have the knowledge, expertise, and skills to generate and implement solutions that will improve maternal health, rights, and justice, but sometimes lack the platforms necessary to support and amplify their work. The Black Mamas Matter Alliance helps to:

  • Increase the visibility of Black women leaders;
  • Cultivate a deep bench of Black women leaders recognized for their expertise, contribution, and work; and
  • Support more effective collaboration of stakeholders working to advance Black maternal health.

BMMA was created out of a need to form an entity that can hold space and serve as a platform for Black women-led initiatives that are working to address the issues that impact maternal health disparities and inequities using the human rights, reproductive justice, and birth justice frameworks across all sectors.

See also: Death by Delivery (Fusion TV)

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RT @astuebe Black women experience greater postpartum severe maternal morbidity #SMFM19 @BlkMamasMatter #RacismNotRace #ReproductiveJustice pic.twitter.com/VbgDbDMpge

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Listen to Black Women, #TrustBlackWomen, Invest in Black Women. Join us as we continue to champion #BlackMaternalHealth. Let's create a future where #BlackMamasMatter. Donate today! bit.ly/2GvGwA7 pic.twitter.com/sfnlnty4Ew

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Thank you @CU_Nursing! We hope to see other institutions do the same in the future! #BMHC18 #BlackMaternalHealth twitter.com/CU_Nursing/sta…

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For Us, By Us! Improving #BlackMaternalHealth requires leveraging the talent and knowledge that exists in Black communities. Thank you Isabel Morgan for championing Black Maternal Health research. #BlackMamasMatter #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/4v6Z2m0vin

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RT @blkwomenshealth Who's going to Power Rising in New Orleans, February 21-24? BWHI will be there. Stop by and visit our table to learn more about #JoinAllOfUs and to say "HI!" Learn more: bit.ly/2Dx1YBX #PowerRising pic.twitter.com/JrIE5CYlur

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RT @SisterSong_WOC #LTAS2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Do you have a great idea for a workshop or institute for our #LetsTalkAboutSex conference? We are seeking responses from people working on a range of issues that impact #reprojustice and sexual rights. Submit proposals: bit.ly/LTAS2019propos…. pic.twitter.com/bIQslDfvQ2

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We fight for #BlackMaternalHealth, rights and justice for our Black mamas gone too soon! We honor those we've lost publicly and behind the shadows. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMamasMatter #saytheirnames #EricaGarner #KiraDixonJohnson #CrystleGalloway #ShalonIrving #LashondaHazard" pic.twitter.com/co44ZyFs5M

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RT @TheaMonyee After years of working in mental health and not seeing a therapeutic framework centered on dismantling the effects of anti-Blackness, I decided to create one. pic.twitter.com/AuBY8rCcyo

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