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Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are increasing, and Black mothers are at an even greater risk. EleVATE, a group prenatal care program at University Health in Kansas City, aims to improve the positive outcomes of at-risk individuals.

The Parvin Estates tenant union is the first of its kind in Kansas City's Northland. Residents say that rents are being raised by 35% after years of neglect, including broken air conditioning and infestations of rodents and insects.

The policy says corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline have failed and then only with the superintendent's permission. The district had dropped the practice in 2001.

Women working full-time in Missouri earn about $10,000 less per year than men, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Women are more likely to work in lower-paying industries and are often forced to leave their jobs due to lack of affordable child care.

Missouri is among the Midwestern states with some of the country's highest rates of cancer mortality for Black residents. Public health advocates have worked for years to close the racial gap, but some worry the pandemic will delay progress.

Racial disparities in healthcare include the fact that Black women are one and a half times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women and it doesn't stop there.

Black women die from pregnancy-related causes significantly more than other groups. Why? And what's being done about it?

With a goal of 100,000 breast cancer screenings by 2022, the AKA Sorority's Mammography Mobile Unit stopped in Kansas City on Friday and Saturday.

Some local health departments say that the system created to track vaccines doesn't show them county demographic information.

When affordable child care is scarce, it's moms who have to choose between work and family.

Missouri women with the talent and skills to lead remain on the sidelines because of unnecessary obstacles, how the pandemic has affected people adopting and giving up pets, and the lessons learned from this most unusual year in sports.

One in five Americans deals with a mental health issue. However for people of color, being a person of color itself takes a toll on mental health.Studies…