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This article is part of the Cap Times series Deadly Divide, investigating Wisconsin’s ongoing Black infant mortality crisis. Erin McGroarty reported this story as a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2026 National Fellow and a participant in the Center’s engagement initiative.
David Crowley leads the largest county in Wisconsin, which regularly ranks among the worst states in the nation for its Black infant mortality rate…