With the current paradigm shift in health care towards providing valuebased care and the echoes to meaningfully reduce racial inequities, nurses, and midwives globally are essential to addressing the needs of populations that have been marginalized based on race. Race describes grouping individuals based on observable characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape, and other facial and body features. Race and racial categories differ internationally and have changed across centuries as social, political, cultural contexts, and migration patterns change. Importantly, there is no genetic basis for racial differences as all human DNA is the same, therefore, human beings are all equally human.