Whereas recognizing the day of 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 Black Midwives Day as a day of awareness, activism, education, and community building; Whereas this day is intended to increase attention for the state of Black maternal health in the United States, the root causes of poor maternal health outcomes, and 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 United States maternity care system 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 the high income countries, increasing rapidly, and disproportionately higher among Black birthing people; Whereas Black birthing people in the United States suffer from life-threatening pregnancy complications, known as maternal morbidities , twice as often as White birthing people