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At left, formula is distributed during a baby formula drive in Houston, May 14, 2022, during a nationwide shortage of the product. At right, Ana Rodney poses with her son Asher at home in Baltimore, in a May 2022 photo provided by Rodney. Rodney runs MOMCares, a Baltimore organization that provides baby supplies and support to new mothers in the city’s Black community. The baby formula shortage has hit the local Black community hard, she says, because formula feeding is typically more common among Black women — often because they don’t get breastfeeding encouragement or support from the white medical community. (Courtesy Ana Rodney via AP)