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The Black Midwife Museum of the Global Diaspora at Jamaa Birth Village-dedicated to preserving, honoring, and uplifting the legacy of African Indigenous & Black midwifery, through immersive exhibits, artifacts, oral histories, and ancestral traditions.

06/17/2026

Mariah Watkins was part of a lineage of Black midwives who showed up for families in ways history books do not always fully capture. The kind of women communities relied on for maternal care, postpartum wellness, folk healing, and agricultural education.🌿

To a young, 11-year old George Washington Carver, she was Aunt Mariah, a mother figure raising him alongside Uncle Andy, in a cozy 2-room house, next door to the only Black school for miles. Mariah Watkins was the one who taught Carver botany & spiritual strength, in a way that activated his destiny in agricultural advancements.

Her story is a reminder that Black maternal care has always existed inside community, relationship, and lived knowledge, way beyond delivering babies, but also, delivering life changing experiences.✨

We are honored to preserve and share her legacy inside the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum at Jamaa Birth Village in St. Louis.

Come experience the exhibit and learn more about the women who helped shape this work.💜

jamaabirthvillage.org

06/08/2026

Agnes Wade was a healer, caregiver, teacher, and trusted community figure who helped bring generations into this world with care, wisdom, and dignity during a time when Black families were often denied proper medical access.

Women like Agnes Wade carried sacred knowledge that communities depended on.

Today, we honor her legacy and the countless Black midwives whose work helped shape the foundation of maternal care as we know it.

Her story and contributions can be experienced inside the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum at Jamaa Birth Village in St. Louis.

Come visit and experience this living history for yourself.

jamaabirthvillage.org

06/04/2026

Supporting the work does not have to look huge to make a real impact.

✨$25 can help provide postpartum and baby essentials

✨$50 can help support holistic care resources for a family

✨$100 can help invest in training and supporting future birth workers

✨$250 can help expand access to culturally rooted midwifery and doula care

Every dollar helps us continue the work through:
• Midwifery care
• Doula support
• Doula training
• The Midwifery School
• The African Indigenous Midwifery Museum & Library Research Institute

This work is community supported. 💜

Give and learn more:
jamaabirthvillage.org

06/02/2026

Maude W. Callen was a nurse midwife, teacher, healer, and community leader who cared for thousands of families across rural South Carolina when access to medical care was limited and segregation left Black communities underserved.

She traveled dirt roads, day and night, and during all types of weather, many times by foot.

She delivered babies and provided care for entire families, babies to elders.

She trained a generation of midwives, and she made sure mothers and children received care with dignity.

Women like Maude W. Callen are the reason this work matters. Her hands, heart and spirit carried lineages of women and family who felt truly cared for.

We honor her legacy and the sacred lineage of Black midwifery that continues today. 💜

Her story and display can be experienced at the African Indigenous Midwifery Museum.

Learn more and plan your visit:
https://blackmidwiferymuseum.org

06/01/2026

Majority of expecting women are not asking for perfection, they’re asking to feel heard, seen, honored and respected.✨

They’re asking to have real conversations, where they lead, and are not talked at or down to.

They’re asking to be involved in decisions related to their own body, and not for technology to take precedence over what they know to be true about their wellbeing.🌿

Women simply want to know and feel like their body and instincts matter too when giving birth within the modern maternity system.

That’s why wisdom like this from Jamaa’s Founder continues to resonate with so many birthing families seeking more personalized and holistic care, because person to person care is the origin-not technology over women’s rights, or machines over humanity. 💜

Learn more about Jamaa Birth Village and our approach to care:
www.jamaabirthvillage.org

05/29/2026

As this month comes to a close, one thing we hope people carry with them is this:

✨Deep in disturbed rest matters.

✨Having trusted community with genuine folks, where the relationships aren’t based on transactions matters.

✨Deep cultural care, where you can be your whole self matters.

So much of this work is about showing up for others, but this month reminded us that we also deserve moments to pause, reflect, heal, and reconnect with ourselves too.

As you move into a new month, give yourself one small act of care:
• Explore different forms of hydration: Coconut water, cucumber water, mint water, etc.
• Find a cozy special place in nature to regularly come back to
• Plan low or no-tech hours, and ease into no screens at least an hour prior to bed for deeper rest
• Identify trusted people who you may feel safe leaning on deeper in asking for help prior to struggling
• Plan more naps, rest or down time, without guilt

Trust yourself in creating the small habits that uplift, restore & pour into you.🤎

05/26/2026

The African Indigenous Midwifery Library & Research Institute was created as a sacred space for research, reflection, and community knowledge.

A place where you can sit with the work. Study deeply and be connected to the true stories of Indigenous, cultural and communal births-and its evolution.

The AIM LRI is open Wednesday–Saturday, 10am–4pm, with free 2-hour study sessions available by appointment on our website.

Book your visit:
https://jamaabirthvillage.org/black-midwifery-library-research-institute/

05/22/2026

Sunni Patterson was one of the many powerful voices featured at this year’s Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit.

We’re grateful she was part of this year’s experience and helped contribute to the conversations, reflections, and community that made the summit so meaningful.

Still reflecting on so many moments from this year’s summit.

See y’all next year. 💜

05/18/2026

The African Indigenous Midwifery Museum offers guided and self-guided tours bringing the stories, wisdom and documented cultural ways of Black midwife legacies, history and folklore to life.

AIMM is open Wednesday–Saturday, 10am–4pm right in the heart of Ferguson, MO.

Tours must be scheduled in advance via our website, with openings now available June and onwards.

Book your tour today:
https://jamaabirthvillage.org/black-midwifery-museum/

05/15/2026

There are certain people whose presence alone adds depth to a space and Queen Afua was absolutely one of them at this year’s Missouri Black Maternal Health Summit.

Having the opportunity to welcome someone whose work has impacted so many people across generations felt meaningful in itself, and her contribution to this year’s experience was one of many moments we’re still reflecting on.

The conversations, connections, and memories from this year’s summit continue to stay with us in so many ways. 💜

Address

40 N Florissant Road
Ferguson, MO
63135

Telephone

+18334643943

Website

https://jamaabirthvillage.org/black-midwifery-museum/

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