#black-health-disparities

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fromSan Jose Spotlight
1 month ago

Cantrell: A genocide in slow motion - San Jose Spotlight

Black mothers and infants in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties face dramatically elevated mortality rates that constitute a slow-moving genocide demanding urgent collective action.
fromLos Angeles Times
3 months ago

An L.A. AIDS trailblazer has advice on how to stay hopeful in dark times for public health

The year was 1987. Phill Wilson was 31, a recent transplant to L.A. from his hometown of Chicago. A mysterious infection that weakened its hosts' immune systems was killing people at a terrifying rate, while the Reagan administration downplayed and openly joked about the disease. Some major news outlets initially wrote off the emerging epidemic as a "gay plague," insinuating that other Americans didn't need to worry about it.
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