An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.
Directors Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee follow Gibson’s and Isaac’s bereaved partners, Omari Maynard and Bruce McIntyre, as they fight for justice and build communities of support, bonding especially with other surviving Black fathers. Their tragic, individual experiences are punctuated with condemning historical context, showing that gynecology has a long-standing history of exploiting and neglecting Black women in America. In the arresting words of mother-to-be Felicia Ellis, “A Black woman having a baby is like a Black man at a traffic stop with the police.” She emphasizes that paying attention is paramount. Aftershock brings an unsettling reality to the forefront while uplifting the families, activists, and birth workers who are striving to bring institutional change and legislative reform. These mothers will not be forgotten.
Jake Williams
基努·里维斯,查德·斯塔赫斯基,斯科特·阿金斯,丹尼尔·伯哈特,哈莉·贝瑞,埃里克·布朗,塔兰·巴特勒,陈虎,科曼,杰森·康斯坦丁,马克·达卡斯考斯,乔纳森·埃斯比奥,劳伦斯·菲什伯恩,戴安娜·哈蒙斯,托德·哈里斯,丹尼尔·埃尔南德斯,安杰丽卡·休斯顿,巴兹尔·伊万尼克,德里克·科尔斯塔德,达恩·劳斯特森