Anabel Rivera News Today

BATON ROUGE - Late holiday shoppers were rushing around Juban Crossing in Denham Springs on Christmas Eve to check off final items off their lists.

A report released last year found a "lack of racial and ethnic diversity" in the maternal workforce." At the same time, over 80% of doulas are white, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Maskot/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When Carolina Pino was pregnant, she discovered she lived in a so-called maternal care desert, a county with limited or no

In New York City and across the country, publicly funded education programs for doulas of color are booming. A movement to advocate for Medicaid to cover doula services for low-income, pregnant people, has succeeded in several states, which helps make a doula career more accessible to people of color

“Take a deep breath and know that safety's first and that mommy will make it at some point, if anything happens.”