Moms Nurse in Photoshoot to Encourage Black Women to Breastfeed: 'We Are Attempting to Break the Stereotype'

The members of Chocolate Milk Mommies, a parenting group in Birmingham, Alabama, are proud to breastfeed their children. But they say nursing at all — let alone in public — often carries a negative stigma within the Black community.
“It is taboo within the African American home to breastfeed your child, let alone to do it past the age of 1,” one member of the group, Rauslyn Adams, 26, tells PEOPLE. “Breastfeeding has been seen by some African American women as