CHOCOLATE MILK is a digital storytelling project that shares video testimonials from black mothers who have struggled and succeeded with breastfeeding. Each video from the series is posted on our YouTube channel as a resource for mothers and their communities.

In 2016, series creator Elizabeth Gray Bayne decided to extend the project into a feature-length documentary which explores the unique environmental and socioeconomic challenges that contribute to low breastfeeding rates among African Americans. 

MEET THE TEAM

HUMANITIES ADVISORS

Mark Jonathan Harris is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and novelist. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and holds the Mona and Bernard Kantor Endowed Chair in Production.

Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, author and nationally recognized media commentator. Her online commentaries have received over 10 million page views and her fifth book The Big Let Down—How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding was published in 2017.

Marta Effinger-Crichlow, Ph.D is the Chair of the African American Studies Department of the New York City College of Technology. She is also a dramaturg, playwright, and filmmaker, currently in post-production on her feature-length documentary Little Sallie Walker about childhood play and survival for black women and girls.

Jacqueline Wolf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Women's Studies Program at Ohio University. She is the author of Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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