Medicine & health care
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
—Fannie Lou Hamer
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Racism is why we don’t have universal health care
What ‘racism is a public health issue’ means
Being Black in America can be hazardous to your health
The impact of racism on child & adolescent health
How racism creeps into medicine
Racism is a serious threat to the public’s health & a public health crisis
‘Living sicker, dying quicker’
Medical bias, weathering and the deadly impact on Black mothers
As a Black man in America, I feel death looming every day
How racism slowly chips away at Black people’s health
A Black female doctor died of Covid after receiving racist treatment
The ‘father of modern gynecology’ performed shocking experiments on enslaved women
The war on drugs that wasn't: race in media coverage of prescription opioid misuse
How the tobacco industry hooked Black smokers on menthols
We are addicted to punishment, to denial and to the American dream
A shocking number of mentally ill Americans end up in prison instead of treatment
How the politics of racial resentment is killing white people