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The fight for black lives.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Medical care--United States.
- African American women.
- Maternal health services--United States--History.
- Maternal health services.
- Discrimination in medical care--United States.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (00:23:24)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captions in English.
- Summary:
- The Fight for Black Lives shows how racial stress and the US healthcare system disadvantages the health of Black Americans, starting before birth. Shockingly, the present-day gap between a Black newborn's risk of dying before their first birthday compared to a white newborn exceeds what it was during the early 1900s. The film weaves together stories of Black women who were pregnant during the pandemic and Black Lives Matter uprising, interviews with Black health experts, and historical records to illustrate the struggles Black women face in safeguarding their lives and infants during childbirth. Combining personal stories, archival footage, and expert insight, this film centers the need for health justice in America. Two Black women who were pregnant during the pandemic tell their stories of joy and fear: "It was joy, it was excitement, but it was also fear of what it meant to carry black life and to birth black children." These women represent the full socioeconomic spectrum, from women who had their first child before completing high school to women who had their first child after becoming a professor at an elite university. What they have in common is being Black in America, not being listened to by their doctors, and having to fight to receive appropriate care for themselves and their newborn infants.
- Participant:
- Director, Micere Keels.
- Notes:
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 9781036250829
- OCLC:
- 1584442827
- Publisher Number:
- 302655
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