Through Mama Glow, Latham Thomas and her team are transforming the reproductive health landscape through education, advocacy, and community.
Carol's Daughter and the Mama Glow Foundation have announced that they are going into the second year of their Love Delivered initiative in order to continue to offer doula services to Black women.
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are 2-3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white counterparts. Despite this alarming disparity, not much is being done one a national level to remedy the underlying issues that are causing Black women to die at these disturbing rates.
"For Black women, especially, who take care of so many and have culturally inherited this sense of putting everyone else's needs before our own, we really need to have rest. Especially since we index the highest for every single health outcome. We're affected the most. We're supported the least. We really need to rest the most," says Latham.