Podcasts about black women's health imperative

 The Black Maternal Health CrisisWhy is Pregnancy so Dangerous for Black Women?  Special Guests:Franklyn Geary Jr., MD, FACOG Director of the Division of Maternal Fetal MedicineMorehouse School of Medicine    Nan Strauss Director of Maternal Health Research and PolicyAmnesty International USAFeaturing:Taped Statement from Shafia Monroe, CM Founder and PresidentInternational Center for Traditional Childbearing Something must be done to correct this silent crisis facing our nation's Black mothers and infants. The Black Women's Health Imperative is committed to raising long overdue questions as to why pregnancy is so dangerous for Black women. Join the conversation about the factors that contribute to poor health outcomes, such as exceedingly high rates of c-sections, preterm births and a lack of breastfeeding among Black women. Call us at 646-381-4662 to ask your questions during our live broadcast or email them to us prior to the show at asktheexpert@blackwomenshealth.org.  

 The Black Maternal Health CrisisWhy is Pregnancy so Dangerous for Black Women?  Special Guests:Franklyn Geary Jr., MD, FACOG Director of the Division of Maternal Fetal MedicineMorehouse School of Medicine    Nan Strauss Director of Maternal Health Research and PolicyAmnesty International USAFeaturing:Taped Statement from Shafia Monroe, CM Founder and PresidentInternational Center for Traditional Childbearing Something must be done to correct this silent crisis facing our nation's Black mothers and infants. The Black Women's Health Imperative is committed to raising long overdue questions as to why pregnancy is so dangerous for Black women. Join the conversation about the factors that contribute to poor health outcomes, such as exceedingly high rates of c-sections, preterm births and a lack of breastfeeding among Black women. Call us at 646-381-4662 to ask your questions during our live broadcast or email them to us prior to the show at asktheexpert@blackwomenshealth.org.  

The March 13, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody started out with cab driver Richard Tripp talking about the www.coppinc.com Spring Break for the Homeless event coming up in Kansas City on April 7th.  Tripp is the founder and director of COPP Inc, and every Spring and Fall has been putting on events where a couple of thousand people come for free food, free clothing and free entertainment. Next, we heard from Byllye Avery, founder of Black Women's Health Imperative, one of the groups in a coalition called HERvotes.  The 101st International Women's Day was March 8th, and March is Women's History Month, but you'd never know it from the current political climate and the attacks on women's rights and threats to the health and economy of all. The show ends with an account of how revolution broke out on International Women's Day in 1917 in St. Petersburg.  What has come to be called the February Revolution was sparked by women, and this last segment of the show is part of an eyewitiness account by Russian Army machine gun training officer Hugo Hakk, never heard anyplace else before it was serialized on Tell Somebody in 2009. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us