Storygram: Annie Waldman’s “How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers”
When a black woman in America goes into labor, which hospital she chooses for her delivery—or where the ambulance takes her, sometimes against her wishes—can determine whether she and her baby will leave the hospital together and alive. Annie Waldman’s investigation into maternal harm at hospitals that disproportionately serve black mothers, part of ProPublica and NPR’s award-winning Lost Mothers series, Annie Waldman “makes the invisible visible, and it does so with data,” writes Tasneem Raja.
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