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Dana Langford joins A Black Executive Perspective for a necessary conversation on Black maternal health, healthcare racism, policy failure, and why Black mothers are still fighting to be heard, protected, and treated like human beings.
From preeclampsia and postpartum mental health to insurance reimbursement, obstetric deserts, provider bias, and culturally responsive care, this episode exposes the gap between awareness and action.
This is a conversation about healthcare, but it is also about leadership, justice, community accountability, and the urgent responsibility to protect Black women.
▶︎ In This Episode
00:00 Why Black mothers are still at risk
03:00 Dana Langford returns to BEP
06:15 Why Black Maternal Health Week matters
08:30 Why modern medicine still fails Black women
15:30 Preeclampsia, postpartum health, and ignored symptoms
22:30 Awareness is not the same as action
27:00 Being treated as human in healthcare
31:00 Policy, Medicaid, reimbursement, and obstetric deserts
39:00 Misogynoir, representation, and Black women-centered care
47:00 How to find providers who see and hear you
53:00 Dana’s final message and Village of Healing
58:00 Tony’s Tidbit and the L.E.S.S. call to action
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