Smithsonian Affiliates and MoAD present a film screening and discussion.

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Join us for a film screening and discussion about the Oprah Winfrey produced documentary The Color of Care. Following the screening, a panel of Bay Area health care professionals will discuss the impact of racial disparities in the health care system in the Bay Area, specifically focusing on Black maternal care. The panel includes Dr. Nailah Thompson, a physician at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Asmara Gebre, CNM, MS, founder of Black Centering at SFGH, Linda Jones, Doula, and moderated by Dr. Joy Cooper, co-founder of Culture Care. This program is presented in conjunction with Thrive@MoAD, Community Free Day sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.

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About the Film

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‍The Color of Care is a new documentary that traces the origins of racial health disparities to practices that began during slavery in the U.S. and continue today. Using moving testimony from those who lost loved ones to COVID-19 and frontline medical workers in overwhelmed hospitals,  it interweaves expert interviews and powerful data to expose the devastating toll of embedded racism in our healthcare system. The Color of Care is produced by Harpo Productions with executive producers Oprah Winfrey, Terry Wood, and Catherine Cyr. The film is directed by OSCAR®-nominated and Emmy® award-winning director Yance Ford, with producer Kate Bolger. James Blue and Tim Evans are executive producers for Smithsonian Channel, with producer Najma Nuriddin.

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Watch the trailer here.

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About the Panelists

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Dr. Nailah Thompson is a Primary Care physician at Kaiser Permanente Oakland,  the Director for the East Bay Health Equity and Disparities Training programs and the Medical Director for the Specialty Blood Pressure Clinic. Trained in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine , Lifestyle Medicine and a Hypertension Specialist Dr. Thompson focuses on existing disparities in our Black communities and how we can ensure all communities have their chance at their healthiest lives.  Dr. Thompson is a San Francisco native, who enjoys listening to live music around the world but spends most of her time these days  chasing her two year old son around.

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At the University of California, San Francisco Asmara Gebre is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Health Services Department in the School of Medicine, a Midwife at San Francisco General Hospital, and a Watson’s Scholar. She is the Founder & Program Co- Director, BIPOC Aspiring Midwives a Bay Area pilot program aimed at breaking down systemic barriers for BIPOC aspiring midwives on their individual journeys to the profession, Co-founder & Co-lead, MidwiferyMentoring and Belonging, a mentorship program for BIPOC Midwifery Students at UCSF+ Cal State Fullerton in California; Gebre is co-director of the first Black Midwifery fellowship in California which is currently in the design and development phase to provide full scope reproductive health care training for new graduates of midwifery school. She founded and is the Director of Black Centering Midwifery-Led Group Care at SFGH. In 2020 she founded & is the Volunteer Program Director of One Love Black Community, a grassroots Black Led community effort to show up for Black folx who access reproductive health services in San Francisco.  

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Linda Jones is a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Photographer and mother of two, grandmother of our and great grandmother of four, who lives in Oakland, CA. She  has been a part of the natural birth advocacy and reproductive justice community in the Bay Area for over three decades. She is one of the co-founders of Black Women Birthing Justice (BWBJ) (blackwomenbirthingjustice.com) (2011-present)and is co-author of Battling Over Birth; Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California. Linda is the facilitator/instructor for BWBJ’s Doula Training Program. Linda is the Director of Community Collaboration and Board Member for Mothers for Mothers Postpartum Justice (MPJ)(m2mpostpartum) (2020-Present) working to provide a program that provides restaurant meals to postpartum womenfor six weeks after the birth of their child.

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Joy A. Cooper, MD MSc is a Philadelphia native and a Board Certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist in the Bay Area. She completed residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her MD from Howard University, completed a Master's in Sexually Transmitted Infections & HIV at University College of London and earned a A.B. in African and African-American Studies at Harvard College. When she is not on call catching babies or raising her own baby girl, she is fulfilling her mission to impact women of the African Diaspora through her telemedicine startup Culture Care.

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Museum of the African Diaspora and Kaiser Permanente are committed to increasing access to the positive health outcomes of​ arts engagement and providing resources on overall well-being for our community.

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This program is made possible by the generous support of Kaiser Permanente and Smithsonian Affiliates.

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