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African American\xa0 woman in America has a higher chance of dying during or right after pregnancy than a woman in developing areas of Central Europe or Eastern Asia. What\u2019s more, what Williams had to go through is especially revealing about the medical bias faced by black women.According to American College of Obstetrics and gynecology, at least 46% of maternal deaths among African- American women could be prevented (versus 33% for white women), which points to a systematic dismissal of symptoms and patient complaints, and less attention paid overall. Indeed, how race bias affects the medical profession is well documented.Indeed, even Serena Williams, whose body, as her husband correctly notes, \u201cis one of the greatest things on this planet,\u201d is just another black woman when it comes to being heard in the maternity ward\u2014and when it comes to being dismissed.\n\n\u201cAfrican-American doctors, lawyers, business executives, and they still have a higher infant-mortality rate than\u2026white women who never went to high school in the first place,\u201d Michael Lu