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TestBlack Infant Mortality Rate
According to the CDC, In 2018, black babies had the highest infant mortality rate among any race, almost three times higher than their white counterparts
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For Black History Month, NewsOne honors GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME CHANGERS HERE. Kathryn Hall-Trujillo Place of Residence: California Why She’s a Game Changer: Hall-Trujillo is the founder of Birthing Project USA, which works to create better birth outcomes for women of color […]
While the infant mortality rate in the U.S. has long been near the bottom for industrialized nations, African American babies suffer a fate that is different, dying at a rate of 13.3 deaths per 1,000, almost double the national average and higher than Sri Lanka’s. Despite a host of efforts to combat these statistics, the […]
New Jersey — According to a new study, Black women in New Jersey are more than 2 1/2 times more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than white women. RELATED: Top 5 MLK speeches What shocks many even more is that the rates exist at all income and education levels, […]