PREGNANT BLACK WOMEN AND INFANT MORTALITY: WHO’S CARING FOR OUR BABIES?

By Tonya Lewis Lee | TheRoot.com What expecting black mothers need to know about infant mortality.     Getty Images     May 19, 2008â€" Last year I came across a New York Times story about increasing levels of infant mortality among African Americans. It stated that deaths of children in the first year of life, on the decline in previous years, were rising steadily. A few months later, another New York Times article discussed the declining rate of infant mortality around the world, pri