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Left: Book cover featuring a group of doctors wearing white coats and stethoscopes standing side by side. Only one person in the group is Black, highlighting racial disparities in the U.S. healthcare system. Right: A Black woman in a blue and orange dress.

Left: Book cover featuring a group of doctors wearing white coats and stethoscopes standing side by side. Only one person in the group is Black, highlighting racial disparities in the U.S. healthcare system. Right: A Black woman in a blue and orange dress.

The Generational Health Toll of Excluding Black Americans in Healthcare

Roughly 5 percent of doctors in the United States are Black today, compared to the 14 percent of African Americans living in the nation. It’s a ratio that has barely budged in more than a century.

2 days ago11 min read

No Kings protestors line up in the Historic Filipinotown neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles

No Kings protestors line up in the Historic Filipinotown neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles

Filipino American Health Care Workers Are Taking Their Legacy of Fighting for Freedom to Trump

Caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. to the modern-day fight against Trump.

Jasmine Mithani, The 19th

Feb 108 min read

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