Many take it for granted that babies are conceived, carried and born without a problem, that in America and Kansas a child readily survives to their first birthday without illness, death and grief.
But that’s not the case for Black America and its mothers and fathers, particularly in Kansas, where a Black child is 2.5 times more likely to die before their first birthday – the definition of infant mortality – than a white child is. It’s a deadly problem that’s lessened some over the past two decades, but the disparity has not.