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How womanist bioethics can improve maternal health outcomes

Across almost every health indicator, Black women fare worse than women in other racial and ethnic groups. This is particularly true for expectant mothers. One proposed approach to closing those gaps is for medical professionals to change how they assess patients.

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Wylin D Wilson, Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. Her latest book is

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for ÉîÒ¹¸£Àû's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.