By Kimberly N. Alleyne An Undertones Media Investigation Part 1 Part 1: The Water Remembered At 1:08 a.m. on August 2, 2014, the water became something to fear. Across Toledo, Ohio, emergency alerts jolted residents awake with a message few Americans had ever heard from their local government: Do not drink the water. Do not boil it. Do not cook with it. Nearly half a million people suddenly found themselves without access to something so fundamental that most rarely think abo

By Kimberly N. Alleyne When Americans discuss Black maternal health, the conversation almost always begins in the delivery room. It centers on maternal mortality rates, emergency cesarean sections, postpartum hemorrhages, and the sobering reality that Black women remain significantly more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. Photo credit: Nappy.com/Brit Those conversations are necessary. But they are also incomplete. Long before a woman enters a hosp