The Wound Is Real. So Is the Danger
A decades-old betrayal. A present-day crisis. Both demand our attention. Let's start with the truth: Black people in America have been lied to, experimented on, and discarded by the medical establishment for as long as there has been a medical establishment. That is history. And history has a way of making the present complicated. Right now, two NYTimes stories are sitting side by side in the news, and together they capture exactly why so many of us feel pulled in two direc
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Why Blacks are Dying from Preventable Kidney Disease
Stolen History, Stolen Health: Why Blacks are Dying from Preventable Kidney Disease Eleven thousand African Americans die every year from chronic kidney disease only found in people of West African ancestry. Why? It is because the gene variants that trigger these disorders are only carried by populations from the sodium-deficient interior of West Africa. What the history books failed to reveal is that African Americans of slave descent are not simply from West Africa. Dur
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Feb 14 min read
What Black Expectant Mothers Should Expect—and Demand—in Care
When Knowledge Is a Lifeline: What Black Expectant Mothers Should Expect—and Demand—in Care On January 2, the maternal health community lost Dr. Janell Green Smith, a certified nurse midwife and tireless advocate for Black maternal health. She died after delivering her first child. She was 31 years old. This is not just a tragedy. It is a warning. Black women in the United States are far more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This gap shows up at e
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