Angela Lewis Of 'Snowfall' Says Birth Work Is Key To Her Journey

The “Snowfall” actor has been a vocal advocate for educating Black mothers on the importance of midwifery and doula work.

When Angela Lewis isn’t playing the tough-minded Aunt Louie, ensuring her nephew Franklin’s (Damson Idris) business is running smoothly on the hit FX series “Snowfall,” she is doing all she can to spread awareness about the Black maternal health crisis in the United States. Lewis, who gave birth to her first child in 2019, has been a vocal advocate for educating Black mothers on the importance of midwifery and doula work. A doula is a trained professional tasked with nurturing and offering nonmedical support to women throughout pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. A midwife is a medical professional responsible for the same. When Lewis gave birth to her daughter Brooklyn, she was fortunate to have both a midwife and doula to help her through childbirth.  “I feel like our health care system is terrible, and I didn’t think birthing would be any different,” Lewis told HuffPost about her experience researching birth work. “So I really set out to be able to do something that was a little more organic, a little more holistic, and the more research I did after I became pregnant, the more I was certain that that was the way that I wanted to go.”