Zara Khan @3arakhan

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uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock

6 years ago

A child born in a mostly Black census tract bordering the Cleveland Clinic, sponsor of tonight's presidential debate, has a life expectancy 22 years shorter than a child in a White-majority suburb a 15-minute drive away. THREAD. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery @gendereqsurg

6 years ago

We'd love to get you involved as a member of GEIGS!🙋🏾‍♀️ We strive to empower surgeons, trainees, and med students of underrepresented genders worldwide through research, advocacy, and mentorship. Learn more: genderequitysurgery.wordpress.com JOIN by registering: forms.gle/hCb4d5y19X13kf…

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Ed Yong is not here @edyong209

6 years ago

🚨🚨Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/ theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock

6 years ago

Y’all, the fact that the Black-white infant mortality gap is wider today than it was 15 years before slavery ended pretty much sums up how far this country has come in reckoning with racism.

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ProPublica @propublica

6 years ago

New: Black lives are being lost to COVID-19 at twice the rate of others. For protesters we talked to, that’s one more reason to be on the street. “If it’s not police beating us up, it’s us dying in a hospital from the pandemic,” one said. propub.li/3gWyEYn

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Throughline @throughlineNPR

6 years ago

With the recent killings of African Americans by the police, the epidemic of this violence is again in the news. But, this history has existed since the formation of policing in America. The origins of the police in the U.S.: apple.co/2sXkQ8c