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Urban or rural, black lives in NC are being cut short almost before they begin

By Lynn Bonner
North Carolina has one of the worst records in the nation for the deaths of children a year or younger. The rate of black babies’ deaths is a big reason.
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Saving the lives of black babies in Wake County is the goal of a new effort

By Lynn Bonner
Black babies in Wake County are six times more likely to die before they reach their first birthday than white babies.
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Empowering moms – and dads – in the black infant mortality crisis

By Priska Neely
This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being. Other stories in the series include:   Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. My family is part of this statistic   America's black babies are pay
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Saving black babies by saving a whole neighborhood

By Priska Neely
The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies Zone. The idea of this initiative is that improving life for everyone in the community will ultimately save babies.

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