After her daughter, Harmony Ball-Stribling, died on the way to a hospital in Yazoo County, Shenelle Ball-Burks implored the Humphreys County supervisors to figure out how to reopen the Belzoni hospital. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today
Moms face a public health crisis that’s putting Mississippi behind every other state, and it could get worse under federal changes, speakers said at a Legislative Black Caucus hearing.