BLACK MIDWIVES SAVE LIVES.
We’re taking our future into our own hands. Here you’ll find real solutions to bring culturally congruent midwifery care to every neighborhood!
We’re taking our future into our own hands. Here you’ll find real solutions to bring culturally congruent midwifery care to every neighborhood!
We’re taking our future into our own hands. Here you’ll find real solutions to bring culturally congruent midwifery care to every neighborhood!
Application Opens: August 24
Application Deadline: October 19
Step 1: Fill out the application here.
Step 2: Check your email for your acceptance, along with your username and password.
Step 3: Take a look at the admissions guide to learn more about what you will need to start your City Colleges journey.
Important Information:
Please review all admission requirements carefully and submit your application materials as early as possible to avoid delays.
If you have questions about the general application process or admission requirements, please contact the Admissions Office at kkadmissions@ccc.edu, or contact me at sberry43@ccc.edu about the selective admission process if you have completed course prerequisites and need additional assistance
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Chicago, IL
Friday, August 14, 2026
4:00 – 5:30pm CT
Only about 7% of
all contemporary midwives in the United States are Black.
GAO, Midwives: Information on Births, Workforce, and Midwifery Education. GAO-23-105861 (Washington, D.C.: April, 2022).
Why this matters so much: Black women are statistically more likely to die or be harmed when receiving care outside their race.
to provide equitable, accessible, respectful, safe, effective, affordable care.
According to statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) over 91 percent of maternal deaths to Black women in Illinois were deemed preventable.
Social, systemic, community and clinical factors all contributed to the deaths of these women. And these are all things that can be addressed.
1 out of 3 women of color who gave birth in an institutional setting reported experiencing maternal mistreatment during labor or delivery.
Goode, Keisha L. “Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism.” PhD diss., CUNY, 2014
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Reproductive Health Practices & Dismantle Obstetric Racism
in Community Midwifery & Transform Public Health Research
& Invest in
Black Midwives
BMC has emerged as a powerful catalyst in the field of reproductive health. Our aim is to empower communities and redirect the control over health maintenance, transcending the limitations imposed by state-run institutions.
We are called to do this work so our children don’t have to. NOW IS THE TIME we revolutionize maternal heath care.
Our mission is to improve health outcomes for Black birthing individuals, by actively addressing disparities in maternal and infant health that have disproportionately affected our community. We aim to revolutionize midwifery models of care, by increasing the racial diversity of Community Midwives to combat obstetric racism, and dismantle institutionalized birth practices.
Step 1
After joining our mailing list, receive updates on what we’re doing, where we are, and how you can take action alongside us!
Visit our “initiatives” page to keep updated on how we’re changing structures of systemic racism. Want to get further involved, let us know!
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