{"id":1646,"date":"2011-03-16T23:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:28:53","slug":"save-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Save the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Salina B. Lazarus, Tonya Lewis Lee and Pastor Daren Jaime at Syracuse University<\/p><\/div>\n

Salina B. Lazarus, Tonya Lewis Lee and Pastor Daren Jaime at Syracuse UniversityProducer, attorney and author Tonya Lewis Lee says she was surprised to learn several\u00a0years ago that infant mortality rates among African American women were twice that of whites and Latinos here in the United States.\u00a0 She also found out that even among educated African American women, and those with access to healthcare, the infant mortality rates were disproportionately high.<\/p>\n

“Clearly this is not a poverty issue,” she says.<\/p>\n

Lewis Lee,\u00a0the national spokesperson for the Healthy Baby Begins with You Campaign,\u00a0was in town today at Syracuse University to present the\u00a036-minute documentary\u00a0she produced titled: Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nation’s Babies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the alarming statistics, Lewis Lee says she is optimistic that with increased\u00a0education, further\u00a0advances in genetics, as well as a collective effort from government, the medical community and\u00a0the private sector working together, things can improve.<\/p>\n

“There’s no overnight fix,” she says.<\/p>\n

Lewis Lee talked earlier this year to NIFTN’s George Kilpatrick about her book Giant Steps to the Change the World.\u00a0 She said her next project will be to co-produce a film adaptation of the Christopher Paul Curtis book The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 along with actor, comedian Chris Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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