Tatyana Ali: “The Solutions to Black Maternal Health Already Exist”

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By Kweli I. Wright

Tatyana Ali has spent years talking about what went wrong when she gave birth to her first son. Now, she wants the conversation to focus more on what can go right.

The actress and maternal health advocate, who has described experiencing obstetric violence during the 2016 birth of her son Aszi, is using her platform—and her baby-quilt business—to help Black and Indigenous families get access to the kind of birth support she says changed her own experience of motherhood.

“There are solutions. The solutions exist now,” Ali told NPR in a recent interview. “There are birth centers, there are midwives educating themselves, doulas going into practice.”

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