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Articles in race tagged with health
Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.
A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.
After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.
Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.
First, segregation blocked this Florida community from equal education and other public goods. Then the military–industrial complex sickened residents and destroyed their property.
Elizabeth Catte’s new book examines how Virginia progressives believed the forced sterilization of poor whites would pave the way to a bright future—and how their legacy endures in national parks and prisons.
COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis. This is the result of racist policies which collapsed the social safety net while setting blacks in the path of danger.
State policies shaped by white supremacy increase mortality rates in much the same way as other manmade health risks, such as pollution.
