Raising Our Voices: Black Women Reckoning and Taking Control of Our Narrative

Raising Our Voices: Black Women Reckoning and Taking Control of Our Narrative is a powerful non-fiction collection that centers the birthing experiences of nine Black and Brown women. Through firsthand accounts and tributes to those who did not survive, the book transforms cold statistics into a deeply human narrative of the maternal health crisis in the United States.

The author-a Sierra Leonean immigrant, nurse, and advocate-was driven to write by both professional observation and personal...