SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — According to a 2022 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report, 75% of Black infants were introduced to breastfeeding compared to 86.2% of non-Hispanic white babies. Healthy Savannah wants to increase those numbers by holding a screening of the movie, ‘Chocolate Milk.’
The screening of ‘Chocolate Milk’ is free and open to the public. It’s happening Sunday, August 24 at 3 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom (11935 Library Drive) on the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University in Savannah.
Elsie Smalls, PhD, is the Breastfeeding Program Manager at Healthy Savannah. “Healthy Savannah is a nonprofit, community-based organization that’s been around for about 18 years. Our overall strategy comes from a CDC grant called the ‘Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health’ (REACH). The breastfeeding program is one of those strategies and the focus is education, access, awareness and creating an environment that’s breastfeeding friendly.
Smalls says Healthy Savannah chose this date to share the film with the community to coincide with National Breastfeeding Month, held annually during August, and specifically Black Breastfeeding Week, which is August 25 through 31.