<div dir="ltr"><div>Tomorrow night at the Spurlock auditorium</div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.smilepolitely.com/splog/watch-a-free-screening-of-birthing-justice-at-spurlock-museum/">https://www.smilepolitely.com/splog/watch-a-free-screening-of-birthing-justice-at-spurlock-museum/</a><br><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;line-height:1.8;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px">Nation-wide, Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. In 2022, <a href="https://ywcauofi.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=23fea628a386b4a0df02bf0db&id=fa2e915d57&e=5fc6496cfe" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(226,53,36);text-decoration-line:none">Black women’s maternal mortality rate</a> in Chicago was nearly six times higher than White women. </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;line-height:1.8;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px">This award-winning, feature-length documentary film centers on the expertise and lived experiences of Black women and their advocates. As cameras follow women through pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period, medical and social justice experts expose the challenges they face—including genetic predispositions, chronic stress, racial bias, culturally ignorant care and barriers to adequate healthcare. These inequitable structures and systems have resulted in a racial disparity in maternal and infant health.</p></div></div>