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80% of Black Women Experience Fibroids. Does Racial Trauma Play a Role?

This story was produced in partnership with Vox as part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. Comedian DulcĂ© Sloan took to Twitter recently with a burning health question: “Soooo EVERY black woman has fibroids,” she wrote, injecting a bit of hyperbole, “and no one knows why?!”  The tweet sparked a flurry of responses theorizing why 80% of […]

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