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StoryCorps Archive
In a conversation with her husband Carl Megibow, recorded for StoryCorps, Ebonie speaks frankly about her experience giving birth to her son, and the racism and ableism she encountered in the health care system. As a researcher, she has dedicated her career to maternal health and righting the inequitable danger Black women face giving birth in the United States, yet still faced those dangers herself.
It's something that's hard for me to come to terms with, as a Black woman, as a Black mother. I read about it, and then I lived it.
StoryCorps is a project to "preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world." All StoryCorps interviews are preserved at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.