Melanin & Maternal Wellness HERSTORY ADVOCACY EVENTS MEDIA PLANS More MELANIN AND MATERNAL WELLNESS . because it takes village. EDUCATION ADVOCACY CARE OUR Core Values Eban VILLAGE Nkonsonkonson FAMILY Asase Ye Duru BIRTH JUSTICE Mpatapo HEALING Sankofa RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MISSION Our mission is to improve birth outcomes and decrease health disparities in Black maternal and infant health by providing culturally congruent perinatal doula services lactation support services childbirth education advocacy and linkage to communityaligned resources that support maternal wellness. Africa to America Somewhere in the African past before the guns before the shackles before the kidnappings of storytellers and skyreaders musicians dancers doctors sculptors teachers planters hunters historians mothers fathers and children before all that there were women who caught the babies and guided them into the world with gentle loving hands.