Whereas recognizing March 14, 2024, as Black Midwives Day underscores the importance of midwifery in helping to achieve better maternal health outcomes by addressing fundamental gaps in access to high-quality care and multiple aspects of well-being; Whereas the Black Midwives Day campaign, founded in 2023 and led by the National Black Midwives Alliance, establishes March 14th as Black Midwives Day as a day of awareness, activism, education, and community building; Whereas March 14, 2024, is intended to increase attention on the state of Black maternal health in the United States, the root causes of poor maternal health outcomes for Black birthing people, and the need for community-driven policies, programs, and care solutions; Whereas the United States is experiencing a maternity care desert crisis in which 2,200,000 women of childbearing age live in maternity care deserts where they do not have access to hospitals or birth centers offering maternity care or obstetric providers; Whereas maternity care deserts lead to higher risks of maternal morbidity and mortality as most complications occur in the postpartum period when birthing people are far away from their providers; Whereas incorporating midwives fully into the maternity care system in the United States would reduce maternal health disparities and help to address the maternity care desert crisis; Whereas, despite the medicalization of childbirth in the United States, the maternal mortality rates in the United States are among the highest in high-income countries, increasing rapidly and disproportionately higher among Black birthing people; Whereas maternal health is intractably linked to infant health, as the United States infant mortality rate rose 3 percent from a rate of 5.44 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2021 to 5.60 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, the largest increase in the infant mortality rate in 2 decades