This directory helps individuals and families identify and support Black/African American healthcare professionals and Black-owned healthcare businesses across pharmacy, dental, vision, OB/GYN & women's health, midwifery & doula support, podiatry, and nutrition. A provider may qualify whether they own a practice or work within a hospital, clinic, health system or group practice.
Listings are informational and are not clinical endorsements. Patients should confirm licensing, appointment availability, insurance participation, Medicaid/Medicare status, hours, and services directly with each provider. No qualifying provider identified in this edition should be interpreted as the only Black professional serving that specialty or community.
Ownership or independent-practice status was supported by baseline research and/or current public records.
Identifies a Black professional who qualifies for the directory even when the employer or health system is not Black-owned.
A strong candidate whose ownership or identity details are still being confirmed before broader publication.
23 confirmed listings across Hinds, Flowood/Rankin, and Madison counties.
Are you a Black/African American healthcare professional, or do you know a qualifying provider or Black-owned healthcare business in Pharmacy, Dental, Vision/Optometry, OB/GYN & Women's Health, Midwifery/Doula Support, Podiatry, or Nutrition — in Hinds, Flowood/Rankin, or Madison County?
Honoring the professionals and pioneers who helped build pathways to care, opportunity, and ownership.
Today's Black healthcare professionals and businesses stand within a much longer Mississippi tradition of professional excellence, entrepreneurship, community service, and expanded access to care. The people below are historical figures and should not be read as current provider listings.
A pioneering Black dentist, self-made millionaire, and civil-rights leader who helped build much of Jackson's historic Farish Street business district during the 1930s and 1940s. A federal building in Jackson bears his name.
Mississippi's first African American board-certified OB/GYN. She became the University of Mississippi Medical Center's first Black faculty member in 1969 and helped establish the primary care clinic at the Jackson Medical Mall.
Practiced general medicine with an OB/GYN subspecialty for 64 years at 527½ N. Farish Street in Jackson — the first African American physician admitted to Baptist Hospital's staff and a prominent civil-rights figure. Dr. Britton died in 2010.
Recognized as the first African American female optometrist in Mississippi. Unlike the other legacy profiles, Dr. Johnson also appears in the current-provider directory above through her service at Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center.
Including Smith Drug Co. in Hattiesburg and the 4th Street Drugstore in Clarksdale — outside Hinds County and/or no longer operating, but part of the longer history of Black pharmacy ownership in Mississippi.
Women for Progress of MS does not infer race or ethnicity from a person's name, photograph, school, neighborhood, or other indirect characteristics. Black/African American identity and Black-owned status are treated as separate facts and are included when supported by public self-identification, a credible professional/community source, provider confirmation, or another sufficiently reliable record. Aggregator and business-directory listings may be used to discover candidates but are not treated alone as definitive proof when stronger verification is needed. Practice locations, staffing, insurance participation, and appointment availability may change — readers should verify current information directly with the provider or practice.