How Our Conversation Around Breastfeeding Hurts Black Infants
For too long, the dialogue around breastfeeding has been a deeply privileged one that erases and ignores Black women. Racial inequality in the U.S. is so entrenched, so debilitating, that even Black babies—even, sometimes, within their first hours of life—are impacted by it. Consider, for a moment, these chilling facts: The infant mortality rate for Black […]