'Her worst fear has come to pass': Midwife who advocated for Black women dies after giving birth

Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...

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These high costs are taking a huge bite out of family budgets. Median household income in the U.S. was $83,730 in 2024, per ...
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A midwife’s death days after childbirth complications reignites the conversation around Black maternal health

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

It Doesn’t Surprise Me That a Black Midwife Died in Childbirth

Yet, on Jan. 2, she died from childbirth complications. She was only 31 years old. I see her death as a profound failure of ...