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Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the baby boy she was carrying, referred to him as “a hoodlum.” Tozay, a social worker, froze. She had just been hospitalized at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington, with preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy, and she is Black. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times “A ‘hoodlum’?” she said. “Why would you call him that?” The fetus was

Deaths of pregnant and new moms underscore a stark disparity: Black women are nearly three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as white women. Henry Ford Health in Detroit is trying a simple approach to narrow that gap.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, encouraged women to find inspiration to fight for equity as she accepted the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Award Tuesday night, with Black Voters Matter

NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will be in New York Tuesday night, along with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown, to receive the Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award, as the nation’s oldest women’s foundation marks its 50th anniversary.

This week the duchess proved that five years after marrying Prince Harry, she has totally shed the trappings of royal life that didn’t fit her, except the obsessive press interest.