My husband is white and I am Black ... My mom told me if I wanted a Black baby, I should have married a Black man. I married the man I love and who loves me in equal measure.

When actress Charlize Theron brought son Jackson home in March, she joined a growing list of White celebrities who have adopted Black babies in recent years. Sandra Bullock. Madonna. Angelina Jolie.

Nationally, the average is about 1 percent for Black infants and less than 0.5 percent for White infants. Meanwhile, Orangeburg County’s infant mortality rate for babies of all races is the ...

350 babies born to the poorest white mothers die. 437 babies born to the richest Black mothers die. 653 babies born to the poorest Black mothers die. In the United States, the richest mothers and ...

but African American babies have the greatest risk. According to the Office of Minority Health, Black newborns are more than twice as likely to die in their first year compared to White newborns.

Syracuse, NY — Black babies in Onondaga County are more than 4 times at risk of dying than white babies, the latest data shows. The gulf between Black and white baby deaths is now twice as bad ...

Babies born to Black mothers are twice as likely to die in the first month than infants born to white women. But the disparity is even wider among infants conceived through fertility technologies ...