The COVID-19 pandemic together with the growing racial justice movement has highlighted longstanding disparities in health and health care for people of color, including stark disparities in maternal and infant health. Despite continued advancements in medical care, rates of maternal mortality and morbidity and pre-term start have been rising in the U.S. Maternal and infant mortality rates in the U.S. are far better than those in similarly large and wealthy countries, and people of color are at increased risk for poor maternal and infant health consequences