On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.

More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.

Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.