Redressing the racial health gap
A Harvard symposium examines the public health case for reparations to Black descendants of slavery and what remedy might look like.
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Kamilah Moore and California’s path to reparations
California’s new task force is a first of its kind effort to quantify the harms of slavery. Next up, recommendations for real steps to remedy.
We can’t end structural racism without better ways to measure it
Researchers know race plays a role in health disparities, but need new tools to show how, argues Rachel Hardeman.
Cultivating food justice, one garden at a time
A network of urban farms expands access to affordable produce in a bid to close racial health gaps.
Two years after a landmark report on health disparities, a Yale New Haven cardiologist sees signs of hope
Keith Churchwell discusses glimmers of progress following his 2020 report on structural racism and heart disease.
Kansas City and the case for restitutional medicine
How one U.S. city is approaching a way to redress structural racism and boost community health.
Building green spaces in the name of environmental justice
A former wildland firefighter shares how he's gone from fighting fire to building parks and planting trees in Los Angeles.
Revisiting the ‘Unequal Treatment’ report, 20 years later
Two decades ago, a landmark report called out racism in health care, indelibly changing the public health landscape. There is much more work to be done.
The long, low echo of apartheid in South Africa
In South Africa, persistent bias in medical schools and health care means your health is still worse if you’re Black. Because you’re Black.
Metcalfe Park: Inside structural racism’s invisible net
Living in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park neighborhood is bad for your health. It’s nobody’s fault—and everyone’s.