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Black Women's
Health Month
Advancing the health and well-being of Black women in Detroit and beyond.
What is
Black Women's
Health Month
Black Women’s Health Month (BWHM) is a community-led initiative created by Remembering Cherubs to address health disparities impacting Black women. This year's theme is Healing for the Culture.
Talk It Out, Walk It Out (TIOWIO) serves as the official BWHM kickoff event in Detroit – an annual awareness walk and community wellness event in partnership with The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Official Black Women's Health Month Community Calendar
Throughout August, Remembering Cherubs coordinates the official Black Women’s Health Month Community Calendar, featuring partner-led activities across Metro Detroit. Community partners host classes, workshops, webinars, and events aligned with the month’s theme or five priority focus areas:
Maternal & Reproductive Health
Mental Wellness
Physical Wellness & Chronic Disease Prevention
Research Equity
Social Determinants of Health
This coordinated calendar expands access points across Metro Detroit, ensuring Black women can engage in activities, education, and resource connection throughout the month.
Get Involved
Community partners can also lead a mini-workshop at TIOWIO on under-discussed health and wellness topics affecting Black women.
Did You Know?
Health disparities are preventable, measurable differences in health outcomes or access to healthcare between specific groups. The disparities Black women face are real, urgent, and unacceptable.
Black women:
are more than twice as likely to have a stillbirth and three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications
CDC
face higher rates of many chronic illnesses (such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma)
KFF
experience fibroids at significantly higher rates, often with untreated symptoms that reduce quality of life
CDC
"But Why?"
Black women’s bodies are no different. So why are Black women impacted at higher rates across at least 12 major health disparity categories in the United States? Primary reasons point to systems, not to us. Systemic racism means Black women are too often unheard or under-cared for in medical settings simply because of their race. Historical discrimination, like redlining, created food deserts and lasting mistrust rooted in medical exploitation.
Take Action
These stats tell a devastating story of inequity, but they aren’t the full picture. Because behind the statistics are mothers and daughters, community members, and community leaders who are striving to raise awareness and break the cycle of health disparities impacting this community. Join us at the awareness walk and make a difference.
