race and health in the united states
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Here’s How Racism Is Destroying Your Mental Health
The mental health care space isn’t set up for Black people, new research finds. But it could be.
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Why Are Black Americans Expecting the Worst When Stepping into Doctor’s Offices?
A new study found that most Black Americans are walking into the doctor’s office expecting to be treated poorly.
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We Got Good News About Black Life Expectancy, But Is it Good Enough?
After a devastating pandemic, life expectancy for Black Americans went up, but we still lag behind most groups.
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Reporter Who Broke the News of The Tuskegee Experiment, Speaks Out 50 Years Later
50 years after the story broke, Jean Heller recalls what she went through to let the world know about The Tuskegee Experiment.
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Non-Profit Apologizes For Its Role in the Tuskegee Experiment
The Milbank Memorial Fund has issued a formal apology to the descendants of the participants in The Tuskegee Experiment
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In Health Care Jobs, Black Women Face Major Structural Racism Barriers
Black women are the most widely represented group in their field, yet they’re concentrated in its lowest-wage and most hazardous jobs, study shows.
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Black People Disproportionately Died of COVID-19 Last Year, Study Says
The study concludes that the last 20 years of effort to close the mortality rate gap between Black and white people are erased by the past year of the pandemic.