The Village We Lost: Rebuilding Maternal Care From Gaza to Oakland

The Village We Lost: Rebuilding Maternal Care From Gaza to Oakland

Across the world, mothers and children are absorbing the sharpest edges of humanitarian catastrophe — in Gaza, in Sudan, in conflict zones where medical infrastructure has collapsed entirely. And here in the United States, the crisis wears a different face but is no less urgent: Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, a disparity that has held steady for decades despite the country’s wealth …