Commentary: Recycled ‘solutions’ won’t remedy maternal health inequities

There’s a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. that has become ubiquitous in monthly newsletters from health-focused nonprofits: “Of all forms of discrimination and inequalities, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” Few…

Black maternal mortality has reached a crisis level. Here are the Chicagoans taking steps to stem it.

For Star August, the birth of her first son did not go as planned. August hired an out-of-hospital midwife to guide her through the pregnancy but attended checkups in a hospital as a cost-saving measure.…