
The Black Maternal Mortality Rate in the US is an International Crisis
Your Take: A human rights framework will help the U.S. legal system and policymakers understand how many forms of discrimination—in this case gender, race and socioeconomic class—intersect to affect black women differently. Source: Generic Image | Istock Last week I spoke at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to urge the United States to use a human rights framework to improve maternal mortality in the U.S. That’s right: Black women are dying