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Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine

WEBThe ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is revealing longstanding American health and healthcare disparities yet to be addressed. While some have …

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The Black Freedom Struggle, Healthcare Activism, and the

WEBBy the 1940s, black activists and intellectuals had pushed the government to establish the “Office of Negro Health Work” as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s …

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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

WEBThe devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has intensified scrutiny of racial health inequities in the United States. Reports surfaced …

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Disability: What Have Black People Got to Do with It

WEBDisability is a part of the spectrum of human difference, and of Black variance. Black people with disabilities have contributed significantly to Black life and …

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The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID …

WEBAs the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across the world, troubling associations between race and disease have gone viral. On social …

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Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

WEBGalveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island city also serves as an obscure yet …

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Race, Homosexuality, and the AIDS Epidemic

WEBDan Royles. Dan Royles is an assistant professor of history at Florida International University in Miami. His first book, To Make the Wounded Whole: African …

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Black Women, Police Violence, and Mental Illness

WEBWhen I heard about Charleena Lyles—I remembered Eleanor Bumpurs, Deborah Danner, and Sophia King. All four were black women with mental health …

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Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Legacies of Distrust

WEBUnfortunately, the legacies of distrust that undergirded this stereotype are still with us. Many of the feigned illness accusations early modern Black women faced had to …

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Why Black AIDS History Matters

WEBSince the early 1980s, African American AIDS activists have focused on ways that injuries of inequality like these exacerbate the burden of HIV on Black communities. …

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Intersectional Health Equity in Brazil: An Interview with Kia Lilly

WEBIn today's post, Erica L. Williams, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, interviews Kia Lilly Caldwell about her new book, Health Equity in …

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Black Women’s Expansive Vision For Reproductive Freedom

WEBThey built an expansive and holistic understanding of reproductive rights, rooted in Black women’s right to self-determination. Their organizing provides a path …

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Civil Rights and Healthcare: Remembering Simkins v. Cone (1963)

WEBSimkins was decided only months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was ratified; the Title VI of this act and Medicare funding forced the desegregation of …

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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: A New Book on the Value of

WEBThe Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives—including preconception, …

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Reproductive Justice and Black Women’s Activism

WEBThe Coalition was a nine-year running, community-led project that investigated Black and Brown women’s maternal health throughout the 1980s. In the …

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Enslaved Women’s Sexual Health: Reproductive Rights as Resistance

WEBEnslaved Women’s Sexual Health: Reproductive Rights as Resistance. By Crystal Webster December 1, 2021 1. Arrival from Maryland, 1859; Ann Maria Jackson …

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The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast for Children Program

WEBThis is a guest post by Darryl Robertson, an undergraduate student at Queens College, majoring in History and Journalism. Robertson is a McNair Scholar …

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Uncovering the Voices of Working-Class Black Women in Harlem

WEBToday is the second day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris's new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Unde

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Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness

WEBMe, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness. By Billie-Rae Johnson October 14, 2020 5. Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight …

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