“Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants—11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with 4.9 per 1,000 white babies, according to the most recent government data—a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when most black women were considered chattel.”

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and editor. He is currently the Graduate Program Director of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. His book of critical essays, Dark Mirrors, is out now.