Home is where the heart is, but it is also where the health is. Last week, researchers at Princeton released a study that found that poor Black neighborhoods produce children (whether Black or not) with a higher risk of asthma than children in other neighborhoods. The study findings prove, yet again, that racism in housing markets has a negative effect on African-American health.
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Los Angeles midwives aim to end racial disparities at birth | Aljazeera America
A movement of black midwives is working to stem the rates of African-American babies dying for preventable reasons.
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Discounting Black Children: How the Racially Skewed Economics of Adoption Devalue Black Lives | Atlanta Black Star
It’s a menu unlike any other. Or, paradoxically, it’s a menu too much like any other, where economics determines the value of the listed commodities.
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Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’ | The New York Times
Maisha Joefield thought she was getting by pretty well as a young single mother in Brooklyn, splurging on her daughter, Deja, even though money was tight.
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study Descendants Ask Judge To Give Them, Not Museum, Remaining Settlement Funds | Atlanta Black Star
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to give them any money remaining from a $9 million legal settlement over the program.
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Stress And Poverty May Explain High Rates Of Dementia In African-Americans | NPR
Harsh life experiences appear to leave African-Americans vulnerable to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, researchers reported Sunday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London.
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‘Shark Tank’ Investor Daymond John Shares Successful Battle Against Thyroid Cancer – Atlanta Black Star
Daymond John, an investor in the ABC series, “Shark Tank” is going public with his thyroid cancer diagnosis that he had treated.
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Black Americans living longer, but racial gap remains, CDC says – New York Amsterdam News
When it comes to the overall health of black Americans, there’s good news and bad news, according to a report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.
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For the Henrietta Lacks Family, It’s a Matter of Who Gets to Tell Their Story – The Root
Who can tell your family’s story? That’s one of the key issues the book and now HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, raises. It’s one that Henrietta Lacks’ son Lawrence and his son, Ron, have been asking for some time now.
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Worse Than Tuskegee – Slate
Seventy years ago, American researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea, then left without treating them. Their families are still waiting for help.
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