For Daniel Atkinson, motherhood has not just changed her. It burned a movement.
Black Maternal Week during the week, a national campaign to raise awareness of black mothers and improve the results, is clear what happens when Mothering Justice Mothering Justice becomes an advocacy action.
“We’re simply calling for change, we’re making it,” said Atkinson, the founder of Mothering Justice, the executive director of Mothering Justice. “Black women are more likely to die during childbirth, get low -pay jobs and often care for primary. He demanded that realization take action.”
Atkinson, a mother of six, founded Mothering Justice after fighting for affordable child care and salary during her first pregnancy. What started as a small effort to connect with other mothers was rapidly developed in the growing movement of organizers and a scene of the community.
“The whole goal of the organization is to remove yourself from a job,” he said. “This means a world where discrimination does not exist.”
Mothering Justice also plays a key role in pressure for legal changes. This group is a part of the coalition of supporting the “Mi Monibus” bill in Michigan, it is a package of the law focusing on stopping racial discrimination in maternal health care.
This work is deeply personal for the breeding judge organizer Tamika Jackson with the group.
Jackson shared his traumatic birth experience with lawyers in Lansing as part of a trauma-free berthing experience for black women-according to the CDC, the chances of died in childbirth than white women are about 3.5 times higher.
Talking to Jackson Lansing’s lawmakers, Jackson said, “On May 7, 2022, which was supposed to be a routine epidial, my anthaciologist made a mistake.” “I stopped breathing during labor. I coded. I was kept on Life Support and had an emergency c-division. I survived, but just barely.”
Since its inauguration in 2002, Mothering Justice has expanded its impact beyond Michigan, formed alliances, pressured them to change policy and widen the voice of black mothers across the country.
Jackson said, “We have created force with black women and blacks.” “And we took this power not only in our state Capitol, but also in the capital of our country.”
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