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Black Women Who’ve Died in Childbirth Won’t Be Forgotten

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Kira Dixon Johnson, 39, died April 13, 2016, after bleeding internally for more than 10 hours following a routine C-section.

She left behind two sons.When we walked into Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, the thought that Kira would not walk out and not be here to raise her boys never crossed my mind.After Kira passed, people started reaching out to me with stories of near misses or other horrible birthing experiences.

That’s when I began to do the research and was horrified to see that we were in the midst of a Black maternal mortality crisis.

It was America’s dirty little secret. I had to do something. I owed it to Kira. I owed it to my sons.I think Kira’s story humanized this issue in a manner it hadn’t been before.

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