The number of infants who die before their first birthday is
much higher in the United States than in other countries, and for
African-Americans the rate is nearly twice as high as for white
Americans. Even well-educated African American women have birth
outcomes worse than white women who haven’t finished high school.
Why?
We meet Andrea Jackson, a successful lawyer, executive, and
mother. When Andrea was pregnant with her first child, she, like so
many others, did her best to...