Nationally Recognized Advocates Launch First Annual Black Breastfeeding Week, August 25-31, 2013 NEW YORK— August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month and a group of nationally recognized breastfeeding advocates have declared August 25- 31, 2013 as Black Breastfeeding Week, marking the inaugural celebration of black life with a community forum in Detroit, a live interactive webinar via YouTube and several social media campaigns. The theme for the week is #BlackLivesMatter. Black Breastfeeding Week founding committee members include author, journalist and nationally recognized breastfeeding advocate, Kimberly Seals Allers; founding director of the Detroit-based Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association, Kiddada Green; and and co-founder of the Brown Mamas Breastfeed Project and Free to Breastfeed and MomsRising.org Fellow, Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka. The committee is working with the support of ROSE, MomsRising.org, MyBrownBaby.org, BlackandMarriedWithKids, JhaZamora Publishing, and the St. John Hospital and Medical Center. Black Breastfeeding Week Events: Monday, August 26: Celebrate on Facebook and Twitter by sharing a “round of applause,” “fist bump” or “I’m turned up for breastfeeding!” image with any black mom or dad of a breastfed baby. Tuesday, August 27: BMBFA will host a #BlackLivesMatter community forum in Detroit in collaboration with the St. John Hospital and Medical Center National Breastfeeding Month Celebration. 12-4pm at St. John Hospital, 22101 Moross Rd, Detroit, MI 48224. Tuesday, August 27 at 9pm ET: Black Breastfeeding Live: Dalvery Blackwell, an international board certified lactation consultant and co-founder of the African American Breastfeeding Network of Milwaukee leads an live webinar and chat on everything breastfeeding. Hosted by Kimberly Seals Allers. Watch it live here: https://YouTube/ BMBFAssociation Thursday, August 29 : Award-winning blogger and author, Denene Millner of MyBrownBaby (@mybrownbaby) leads a vibrant twitter chat for African American parents on #BlackLivesMatter. Guests include Dream Hampton (@dreamhampton) and Lamar Tyler of the award-winning BlackandMarriedWithKids (@blackandmarried) website. Join the #BlackLivesMatter Black Breastfeeding Week movement at facebook/BlackBreastfeedingWeek Why we need a Black Breast feeding week? (after receiving a ton of hostile comments about their Black Breastfeeding week initiative, the Black advocates wrote this response.) mochamanual/2013/08/26/dear-white-women-top-5-reasons-why-we-need-a-black-breastfeeding-week/
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