Last Ship, Nightflyers and Queen & Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith gave birth at home rather than in a hospital because of “systemic racism”, according to a report in the New York Post this week.

The black British-born actress and model told the Post: “We had already decided on a home birth because of concerns about negative birth outcomes for black women in America.”

“According to the Centre for Disease Control, the risk of pregnancy-related deaths is more than three times greater for black women than for white women, pointing, it seems to me, to systemic racism.”

Turner-Smith could have given birth by a...