India, Sept. 23 -- A Brooklyn midwife faced online backlash after trying to start a dice game club in her neighborhood. Ellen Christy wrote, "Hi all - seeking women living in Bedford-Stuyvesant to join a Bunco Club!" she wrote. "Bunco is a game of rolling dice (think Yahtzee!), no skills required."

Christy, who is white, shared a photo with mostly white women, which drew swift criticism, according to New York Post.

Ellen Christy, 30, who works at Jamaica Hospital, posted in the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Facebook group inviting women to join a "Bunco Club."

Christy has previously said she became a midwife because of her passion for reproductive health. "I started toabout the positive impact nurse-midwives can have on perinatal outcom...