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.

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 ...

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 ...

Such babies are rare — just 1.2% of white babies and 3.3% of Black babies are born so small — but are extremely vulnerable and least likely to survive. “That’s where the death rates real ...