Study Finds Air Pollution Disproportionately Affects the Health of Black People in California’s Bay Area
Written by Joe Jurado Published on 5th April 2021 A study by the Environmental Health Fund (EDF) and George Washington University revealed that black communities are disproportionately negatively affected …
Fertility treatment less successful for black patients, new figures reveal
Written by Leah Mahon Published on 23rd March 2021 Fertility treatments are revealed to be less effective for black patients in a new report ‘The Ethnic Diversity in …
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Kenya: Alarm Over New Covid-19 Surge
Written by Nasibo Kabale and Harry Misiko Published on 23rd of February 2021 Experts have raised the red flag over rising Covid-19 infections in the country, a situation they attribute …
I took the shot!
Published on The Weekly Challenger on 19th February 2021 “Over 50 years ago, my followers and I at the Center for a United Black Community made a solemn pledge to …
Black Covid Deaths Found to Be Caused by Racism
Published on February 18, 2021 Structural racism in Britain is one of the reasons why black people have been disproportionately died from Covid 19, states London’s public Health chief. Professor …
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Why are Black women in the UK four times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth?
Prof Maggie Rae, president of the Faculty of Public Health, attributes the coronavirus pandemic for only highlighting the inequalities in the healthcare system that are already apparent for many Written …
First up for COVID vaccine: 75 and older. The average Black person in Shelby County doesn’t live that long
Black people who die from COVID are about 10 years younger than whites who die from the virus. Vaccinating strictly by age leaves some Black people out, experts say Written …
Black hospital faces vaccine mistrust from unlikely source
Published on 16th February 2021 In a makeshift vaccination center at a safety-net Chicago hospital, a patient services aide ushers an older woman with a cane toward a curtained cubicle. …
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Broken families and communities lead to self-destruction
A few months ago I woke up to the news that London in the first quarter of the year has a higher murder rate than New York.
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