Outspoken with Regina - Black Maternal Health: Power, Care, and What Gets Protected

Outspoken with Regina Davis Moss is back with a conversation that reframes Black maternal health as a question of power, policy, and narrative.In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, Regina is joined by Keesha Hernandez, CD, CLES, birth and postpartum doula, and Saleemah J. McNeil, MS, MFT, Founder and Executive Director of Oshun Family Center, to explore how community-based care, organizing, and advocacy shape real outcomes for Black birthing people.Blair Imani, creator of Smarter in Seconds, also joins for a Creator’s Corner conversation on how storytelling shapes what people understand about pregnancy, postpartum, and care—and why those narratives matter.From lived experience to structural change, this episode makes clear: what we choose to name, share, and organize around determines what gets protected.About Our Guests:* Follow Blair Imani everywhere* Follow Doula Keesha everywhere* Support the work of Oshun Family CenterSupport In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice AgendaAdditional Links:Narrative Power for Justice: An Initiative of In Our Own Voice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reginadavismoss.substack.com