The simple fact is that as a lover of Black women, I am extremely concerned about health outcomes for Black women. Recently on YouTube a young intelligent sister in medical school lamented the fact that maternal health outcomes for Black women were so poor. She attributed this in large degree to issues of training, and the history of testing medical and anatomical procedures on Black women going back to slavery days. This is a line traced through the Tuskegee experiments, the case of Henrietta Lacks, etc. The obvious answer, nay even the easiest answer, is that we need more Black…