Aftershock Screening with BHS

830 East Pratt Street,Baltimore MD 21202

13 April, 2023

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Baltimore Healthy Start is partnering with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture to host Baltimore Healthy Start’s screening of the Sundance award-winning documentary film, Aftershock. Disparities in maternal health are rooted in economic, racial and social discrimination that prevent women from accessible healthcare resulting in excessive preventable deaths. Black Maternal Health Week was created to address the social, political and economic constraints that create barriers to quality maternal care for Black women and to inspire activism in support of Black-led maternal health initiatives. "Co-directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt explore the systemic reasons why Black and Brown women are more than three times more likely to die during childbirth. They intimately follow the stories of women whose deaths during delivery and postpartum were preventable." - Forbes