When Was the Last Time You Saw a Black Child With Down Syndrome in a Doctor's Waiting-Room Poster?
If the answer is "never," you have just found the gap that four mothers spent years fighting to close.
Black children with Down syndrome do not appear in the pamphlets, the research studies or the campaign imagery that shape how families understand a diagnosis. That invisibility is not a coincidence and it is not harmless. It shapes who gets diagnosed early, who gets referred to specialists on time and who survives longer.
Oneness Sankara, Marsha Martin, Tonye Faloughi-Ekezie and Danise B. Grant refused to let that absence stand and the Black Child Down Syndrome Project they built is now recognised nationally for proving what happens when lived experience becomes advocacy.
The scale of the gap is measurable and the numbers are stark. A 2022 review of parent experiences following prenatal screening for…
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