by Dr. Edith Langford | Aug 1, 2022 | Black Midwifery
It was Christmas Eve December 24, 1932, in a Shelby County coal mining town called Calera, Alabama. Like a streak of black light Granny flies back into town like a bat out of hell. Only her very silent daughter, assistant Sally Eiland Miller known as Big Mama,...
by Dr. Edith Langford | Mar 27, 2022 | Historical medical inequity
In February 2022, nearly 100 years after Granny Eiland was welcoming babies into the world, I met the first Black midwife to be licensed in Alabama since 1976, Dr. Stephanie Mitchell, CNM, MSN, DNP (Certified Nurse Midwife, Master of Nursing and Doctor of...