Books to Read

Discover books that provide historical, clinical, sociological, and lived-experience perspectives on Black motherhood, pregnancy, reproductive justice, medical racism, and birth equity.

• My Black Motherhood — Sandra Igwe
• Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America — Monique Rainford
• Killing the Black Body — Dorothy Roberts
• Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free — Sabia Wade
• Medical Apartheid — Harriet A. Washington
• Policing the Womb — Michele Goodwin
• The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America — Kimberly C. Harper
• Black, Pregnant and Loving It — Yvette Allen-Campbell and Greenidge Hewitt