Sublime

are ravaging bodies in Eastern and Southern Africa, a region already containing 25 percent of the world’s malnourished population. Human-made environmental catastrophes disproportionately harming bodies of color are not unusual; for instance, nearly four thousand U.S. areas—mostly poor and non-White—have higher lead poisoning rates than Flint, Mich

Many factors combine together to affect the health of individuals and communities. Whether people are healthy or not, is determined by their circumstances and environment. To a large extent, factors such as where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income and education level, and our relationships with friends and family all have c

Multiple feedback loops

they too suffer enormous stress and confusion.

30 percent of Black medical school graduates first served as Pullman porters.13 In 1924, my grandfather told the New York Times, “I was studying to be

The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.

Up until very recently, government-funded research has been conducted almost exclusively by, on, and for white men. It was only in 1993 that Congress passed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, a law requiring that women and minorities be included in clinical trials funded by the federal government’s National Institutes of Health.

Finding an Interested Ally