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Vermont Public 2024 Murrow Entry: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Bailey Carson holds her newborn, Kairo after a difficult pregnancy and birth. Bailey says that today, "He's a very happy baby."
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Bailey Carson holds her newborn, Kairo after a difficult pregnancy and birth. Bailey says that today, "He's a very happy baby."

In America, birth is a business; a cultural, political and for-profit system. And currently that system, for Black women, is in crisis. In this episode of Homegoings, host Myra Flynn speaks with a midwife, a doula, and swaps birth stories with two Black women. Together they discuss the joy, the trauma and the needed reckoning to address the racism baked into the pregnancy-industrial complex.

This submission is an excerpt of the episode Black birth: Laboring toward justice.

Homegoings is a seasonal podcast that features fearless conversations about race. Follow the series here.

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