This past weekend, birth workers convened in Atlanta for the first Black Maternal Health Conference and Training Institute . The Institute brought together doulas, midwives, nurses, doctors, public health advocates, researchers and mothers with a singular commitment to address a national crisis: Black mothers are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy complications as White mothers. The Black Mamas Matter Alliance convened the Institute, and advisory committee members noted that Congress has introduced 20 different bills this session to address maternal mortality. However, these...