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The Black Women's Health Project is founded by Byllye Avery.

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Byllye Avery, a Black woman and a reproductive rights and health advocate, establishes the Black Women's Health Project (BWHP) in response to a call to action on the explicit inequities of healthcare for Black women. BWHP is created as a program of the National Women's Health Network in Atlanta, Georgia.

Today the organization is called the Black Women's Health Imperative.