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Racial gap in life expectancy narrowed since 1990 but remains large
Differences in life expectancy between Black and white Americans decreased in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Black teens are prosecuted as adults in N.J. at ‘disturbing’ rate, report finds
New Jersey has an "abusive and arbitrary" system that allows prosecutors to send children and teens to adult court, a new ...
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1. Americans’ views on COVID-19 risk and the country’s response to health emergencies
Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...
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5 Years Later: America Looks Back at the Impact of COVID-19
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it ...
West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease – new study confirms genetic cause
Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney healthcare costs among black people all over the ...
Jassa Ahluwalia: “The mixed story is massively underrepresented at the moment”
At the Jaipur Literature Festival, the author of ‘Both Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed Heritage Identity’ spoke ...