Maternal mortality is shockingly high in the U.S.—especially if you’re Black

Brittany Ferrell is a community activist and high-risk obstetrics nurse from St. Louis, Missouri who was prominently featured in the 2017 Netflix documentary “Whose Streets?” about the 2014 protests that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri after the police-related shooting death of teenager Michael Brown. Ferrell co-founded Millennial Activists United, “an activist collective created by queer Black women.”