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‘Why is it still happening?’ Black San Antonio mothers fight maternal mortality rates

by Raquel Torres and Bria Woods April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are still among the worst in the developed world, and Black mothers are most affected.

Draedyn Daniels shoots a basketball while playing at the Boys and Girls Club Eastside branch on April 1, 2021. A new report from the San Antonio Area Foundation and the San Antonio Area African American Community Fund recommends new education policies to address current discrimination Black students experience.

New report ‘gives us a baseline’ on inequities within SA’s Black community

by Iris Dimmick January 31, 2022January 30, 2022

Melanie Brooks stands in the cemetery of her relatives. "We want to forget" she says in response to the lack of taught history of the African-American population.

San Antonio’s Hidden Black History And The Struggle to Tell It

by Brendan Gibbons February 4, 2018January 31, 2020

Local activist and organizer Mike Lowe leads the march while documenting the event on his smartphone. Photo by Scott Ball.

#BlackLivesMatter Activists: ‘Wake Up, San Antonio’

by Camille Garcia July 9, 2016October 7, 2016