Black Birthing Matters

CultureHub is highlighting resources, actions, and organizations accepting donations that work to combat medical racism, center Black wellness, and protect Black birthing people and babies as they enter the world.

Find a Doula/Midwife

According to nyc.gov, Doula support is a promising way to reduce racial inequities in birth outcomes. Research shows that families in a community-based doula program are less likely to have a preterm baby, which means they have a lower risk of infant mortality.

Centering Black Wellness

Explore resources and research from Birth Worker and Activist Shi Shi Rose who works to protect Black life by empowering Black birthing people with tools for their wellness, joy, and education.

Support Black Maternal Health Legislation

Representative Lauren Underwood and members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus have introduced the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021 to save Black pregnant people's lives.

Learn

Black infants and Black birthing people have the highest mortality rates by race in the United States. Learn more about why, hear from Black perspectives, and discover what you can do to change this reality by watching these videos.

Donate

Financially support organizations and collectives that are doing life-saving work by supporting Black birthing people, Black families, and Black babies.

Buy Black

Black-owned & Black-made

Buy Black-owned and Black-made products via this new directory put together by ShiShi Rose, a mother, writer, birth worker, and community organizer.

We Buy Black

WeBuyBlack.com is an online marketplace where customers may purchase everything they want and need provided by Black owned businesses. Sellers may register to sell their products to a diverse, open, and international market.

Black Wall Street

Official Black Wall Street is a digital platform and directory of over 5,000 verified Black-owned businesses around the world.

Buy Black by CultureHub

Explore a growing list of Black-owned businesses collected and categorized by the CultureHub team. Listings include bookstores, art, make-up, jewelry, clothing, home decor, hair, vintage, and more.

Action

Color of Change

Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, helping people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us.

We See You W.A.T.

“In reaction to civil unrest in our country, we—Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) theatremakers—formed a collective of multi-generational, multi-disciplinary, early career, emerging and established artists, theater managers, executives, students, administrators, dramaturges and producers, to address the scope and pervasiveness of anti-Blackness and racism in the American theater.”

#JusticeforBre

“The LMPD receives more than 38% of the city's budget and the Black people continue to be killed by their officers. Justice for Bre means holding them accountable and using your full power to ensure this never happens again. Black people need investment in communities, and not more police.” Sign the petition to Demand Louisville divest from LMPD, and invest in communities.

Resources

  Illuminations Grant for 
Black Trans Women Visual Artists

Developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara, this new annual $10,000 grant, awarded to draw attention to an existing body of work, sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work.

BTFA Collective

BTFA is a community-based arts organization that builds community and mobilizes resources to support Black trans femme artists.

  CenterLink LGBT Community 
Center Member Directory

CenterLink was founded in 1994 as a member-based coalition to support the development of strong, sustainable, LGBTQ community centers.

Donate

Movement for Black Lives

The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people. In doing so, the movement makes it possible for us, and therefore everyone, to live healthy and fruitful lives. The Movement for Black Lives is a fiscally sponsored 501c3 at The Common Counsel Foundation.

NAACP

Your donation to the NAACP helps further their mission to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. Invest in the critical work by making a donation and encourage your networks to also support the NAACP's movement to build political power and ensure the wellbeing of Black communities.

  Communities United for 
Police Reform (Safer NY Act)

The Safer NY Act is a package of bills in the New York State Legislature that would help increase police transparency and help increase accountability to New Yorkers' most common encounters with police. Your donation will go towards building the capacity of New Yorkers most affected by abusive and discriminatory policing.

Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles

#BlackLivesMatter-Los Angeles is the original chapter of the global movement built to challenge state-sanctioned violence against Black people and to vision and build a just and free society.

The Okra Project

The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.