For Mother’s Day, the Joint Center released a policy snapshot titled Motherhood, Work, and the Black Economy.

Black mothers are central to the economic security of Black children and families. They are workers, caregivers, household anchors, and community builders. Their labor helps sustain families and communities, and their earnings are often essential to whether children have stable housing, food, transportation, childcare, health coverage, and educational opportunity.

However, the economic realities facing Black mothers show that work alone has not produced equal security. By comparison, white mothers working full-time, year-round are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to white fathers.

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This resource provides a summary of Ohio’s newly enacted $90.5 billion state budget for Fiscal Years 2026-2027. Signed into law by Governor Mike DeWine with a record 67 line-item vetoes, the budget outlines key investments in education, public health, infrastructure, workforce development, and community support. Explore how this legislation impacts Ohio’s communities, funding priorities, and long-term goals for equitable growth.

The 2025 Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW25) theme, “Healing Legacies: Strengthening Black Maternal Health Through Collective Action and Advocacy,” emphasizes the power of Black-led perinatal, maternal, and reproductive health organizations to drive systemic change and foster community healing. The theme acknowledges the persistent legacies of systemic oppression(s), reproductive injustices, and health inequities that have disproportionately affected Black Mamas and people.

The 2023 theme, “Our Bodies Belong to Us: Restoring Black Autonomy and Joy,” offered opportunities to engage in activities and conversations that honor the values and traditions of the reproductive and birth justice movements.

As the United States continues to reckon with the many structural and systemic inequitable factors that have been further exacerbated by multiple public health emergencies which contribute to poor maternal and reproductive health outcomes for Black women and birthing people, the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) moved into the fifth year of the trailblazing, congressionally-recognized Black Maternal Health Week Campaign (#BMHW22).

Black Mamas are our caregivers, nurturers, and a village. The Black Mamas Day Campaign is a week in which Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) carves out space to honor the Black Mama figures in our lives in unique, and meaningful ways leading up to Mama’s Day and beyond. Throughout this week, BMMA gives Black Mamas their flowers while amplifying our experiences and voices through our theme of "Claiming Our Power, Resilience, and Liberation."