In the past few years, Black Maternal Morbidity & Mortality have become “hot button” topics. There have been news reports, focus groups, community forums, and research to address this epidemic. However, despite all of the statistical data, conferences and conversations, the war on black and brown wombs continues. “Speak!, Move!, Change!” (SMC) was created to amplify the reproductive justice and birth equity movements and to address the black maternal health crisis.

SMC is a FREE, VIRTUAL series that is offered annually to participants throughout the United States and abroad. The series is co-produced by three BIPOC and/or women-led organizations, commited to reproductive justice, birth equity, and the amelioration of black maternal/infant morbidity and mortality in the US and abroad. The SMC series invites the community at large, individuals and families with lived experiences, reproductive activists, advocates, academics, midwives, doulas, etc., to gather in a virtual space to learn, grow, heal and ACT in response to the black maternal health crisis. The virtual series will include ceremony, ritual, visual and performing arts, community dialogue, panel discussions and a call to ACTION!