The Day I Realized I Needed Help
*If you’re feeling unsafe or considering suicide, please reach out for help. The number for the US-based National Suicide Hotline is 1-800-273-8255 or text the Crisis Text Line with HOME to 741741, …
No, There Will Never Be A Day I Won’t Think Of My Child
“There may come a day when you go an entire day without thinking about her.” These are well-intended words that came from my mother at some time in the second …
DR. KANIKA HARRIS DETAILS BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
During last week’s Black Maternal Health Week, The Black Wall Street Times spoke with Kanika Harris, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director of Maternal and Child Health at the Black Women’s Health Imperative to discuss the state of …
When Your Baby Stops Breathing, Sometimes You Do Too
Every year on February 7th, I stop breathing. Or at least that’s what it feels like… Sometimes it’s a blissful feeling where the world as I know it stops and …
Coronavirus can destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths, study finds
New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women. It’s an uncommon outcome for any pregnancy but women with COVID-19 face an elevated risk. Authorities …
Medical Exploitation of Black Women
In the 1840s, James Marion Sims, a white doctor in Montgomery, Alabama, performed painful experiments without anesthesia on Lucy, an enslaved Black woman, while other doctors observed. Sims was lauded as the “Father …
Serena Williams Writes Powerful Essay On How She Almost Died After Giving Birth
Serena Williams shared the horrifying details of her near-death experience in an essay for Elle published Tuesday. Shortly after the tennis superstar gave birth to her daughter Olympia via cesarean section in 2017, …
My Love Died In My Arms. How Am I Supposed To Recover In Just 4 Days?
Four days. I tried to think back to how I was feeling four days after I lost the love of my life on Dec. 2, 2020. I don’t know exactly …