Black women struggle to find Black sperm donors

When Venus Brady, a Black woman who lives on the South Side, decided to become a single mother, she knew she wanted a baby who shares her ethnicity. She says her Black heritage is important to her and is proud to come from a “very Black family” — people who took off from work for Juneteenth even before it became a federal holiday. But when she checked the donor catalog at Midwest Sperm Bank in Downers Grove, she says she found just two Black donors — and they didn’t meet...