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Advancing Black Maternal Health

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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 @DorothyERoberts @BlkMamasMatter Thank you for inviting and inspiring me! 🤎🔥🤎

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RT @rachelglogan I love how @BlkMamasMatter @BirthEquity, @DorothyERoberts and #BMHW help to shift the narrative from the hateful and harmful rhetoric around Black pregnancy and birth to one of sexual and reproductive health equity, justice, and joy. #BMHC21

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RT @prochoiceoregon Thankful to be at #BMHW21 today supporting @BlkMamasMatter in securing a future in which all Black Mamas have the rights, respect, and resources to thrive throughout their lives—including their reproductive lives. Join us at: blackmamasmatter.org pic.twitter.com/1nmfHqg8kn

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RT @mclemoremr I have always loved her (cue: Caught Out There: “I hate you so much right now”) and to see she’s trained as a saucier and doing amazing work is just a gift. Thanks @kelis for joining @BlkMamasMatter #BMHW21 pic.twitter.com/MTnlGqBAcc

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RT @CodeJGM @BlkMamasMatter @kelis “Everything is always tied to the land.” ~ @kelis #BMHC21 #BMHW21

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RT @CodeJGM @BlkMamasMatter @kelis @kelis is talking about #CurriculumVIolence in schools and the harm on our children’s identity. #EducationalEquity is a #ReproductiveJustice issue. #SDOH through the lens of #ReproductiveJustice #TrustBlackWomen #BlackMamasMatter

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RT @CodeJGM @BlkMamasMatter @kelis Totally appreciate @kelis elevating motherhood as a source of joy and agency for HOW we center our ancestral knowledge, create new ways of meaning for our families and reclaim our identities through radical resistance! Asé! #BMHC21 #BMHW21

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