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Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Dr. Angel Love Miles
21 Oct 2020
Health and disability are interrelated and distinctive social categories that have significant implications for the black community.
Lizzie Presser
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
27 May 2020
Black patients lose limbs at a rate triple that of others, despite the fact that diabetic amputations are, by some measures, the most preventable surgery in the country.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Mothers and Children Die Because of Racist Medical “Science”
10 Feb 2020
Centuries of medical experimentation on enslaved and free Blacks and scientifically erroneous assumptions about Black bodies have created “a crisis in Black maternal morbidity and infant mortality”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Leslie Hinkson’s “Subprime Health”
11 Sep 2019
Race-based medicine in the US has solidified health inequality and is bound up with indebtedness.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Mothers Dying in US
08 May 2019
Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power.