Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper Digital Edition Issue June 10, 2021

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Vol. 40 • No. 20 • Thurs., June 03, 2021 - Wed., June 09, 2021 • An NCON Publication Serving The Milwaukee Area • 75¢

Black Music Month: The Great Ladies of Jazz

Ella Fitzgerald

Billie Holiday

Sarah Vaughan

Dinah Washington

Nina Simone

Bessie Smith

Carmen McRae

Abby Lincoln

Dianne Reeves

Betty Carter

Shirley Horn

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Etta James

Ernestine Anderson

Esperanza Spalding

Outreach Community Health Centers hosts U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin for 'Maternal Round Table'

Photo by Yvonne Kemp

On Friday June 4, 2021, Outreach Community Health Centers (OCHC) hosted a Maternal Round Table with U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin at their 210 W. Capitol Drive location. The event included conversation with mothers, public health stakeholders, and community leaders on the need to reverse the trend of rising maternal mortality rates, lose health disparities that put Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and their kids at greater risk of adverse health outcomes, and improved maternal health outcomes in Wisconsin. In the last 25 years, while pregnancy-related mortality ratios fell 44 percent around the world, the American maternal mortality rate increased: moms are now more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes in the United States than in any other high-income country in the world. The situation is even worse for Black women, who are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from giving birth than their white counterparts. An NCON Communications Publication

Pictured at the event are (back row, from left) WI Office of Sen. Baldwin Executive Director Tiffany Henry; OCHC Board Chairman Warner Jackson; Black Child Development Founding Member Wanda Montgomery; OCHC Obstetrician and Gynecologist Dr. Hilary Evans, WERISE Doula Program members Eve Rhodes, Jaymina Hardy and Kiara Schott; African American Breastfeeding Network (AABN) Khola Cooksey; AABN Co-Founder and Executive Director Dalvery Blackwell; Wisconsin State Representative David Bowen; OCHC Director of Marketing Penelope Stewart; (seated front row, from left) United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County Vice President Community Impact Nicole Angresano; UW School of Medicine and Public Health Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families Collaborative Coach Pat Batemon; US Senator Tammy Baldwin; and The National Coalition for Healthy Black Families, Inc. Tonda Thompson. www.milwaukeetimesnews.com


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