EUTAW, Ala. — Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County’s two working ambulances. Nurses checked his heart activity with a portable electrocardiogram machine, took X-rays, and tucked him into Room 122 with an IV pump […]
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Fate of Black Maternal Health Programs Is Unclear Amid Federal Cuts
Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose, California, hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed to stay a second night. Then a third. A nurse said her son had jaundice. Then said that he didn’t. She wondered if they had confused her […]
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Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in the humid breeze last August in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day on the city’s predominantly Black west side. As recently as five years ago, the event might have attracted an overwhelmingly white crowd. […]
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Black Americans Find a Racism Respite Through ‘Blaxit’
This article was originally published by The Emancipator, a nonprofit digital magazine that reimagines the nation’s first abolitionist newspapers for a new day. Twanna Hines watched her television in shock on Jan. 6, 2021, from her Washington, D.C., home as hundreds of people who believed the lie that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election […]
