Category: black-health

Nearly a decade ago, between 2013 and 2014, the most recent stage in Black liberation began with the Black Lives Matter hashtag, network, and movement — often mistakenly thought to center on the community seeking justice for Black men who were killed at the hands of police and state-sanctioned violence. Though this community is a… Continue reading What Is Black Joy, and How Is It Connected to Juneteenth?

Lately you’re feeling fatigued and getting more headaches than usual. You notice a rash on your lower back where the skin, normally an even brown, is darker and slightly violet-tinged in some areas. The first doctor you see sends you home with a prescription for a steroid cream, which seems to do nothing. Weeks later,… Continue reading Why Doctors Misdiagnose Skin of Color

Racism in Healthcare is a discussion series brought to you by Everyday Health, WFAE Public Radio in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ClearHealthCosts, an organization bringing transparency to medical costs. In episode three, host Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning columnist for Roll Call and the host of its Equal Time podcast, speaks with Priscilla Pemu, MD, a professor of clinical medicine and the medical director of… Continue reading Racism in Healthcare: Why Culturally Congruent Care Matters

Racism in Healthcare is a discussion series brought to you by Everyday Health, WFAE Public Radio in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ClearHealthCosts, an organization bringing transparency to medical costs. In episode four, host Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning columnist for Roll Call and the host of its Equal Time podcast, speaks with Joia Crear-Perry, MD, the founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, which… Continue reading Racism in Healthcare: Racism as a Root Cause of Health Inequities

Racism in Healthcare is a discussion series brought to you by Everyday Health, WFAE Public Radio in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ClearHealthCosts, an organization bringing transparency to medical costs. In episode two, host Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning columnist for Roll Call and the host of its Equal Time podcast, speaks to Alicia Cole, an actress and activist with… Continue reading Racism in Healthcare: Denied Care, Dismissed Symptoms

The disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases among Black and brown Americans has revealed an undeniable fact about our nation's healthcare system: Racism is a public health crisis. Brought to you by Everyday Health, WFAE Public Radio in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ClearHealthCosts, an organization that brings transparency to medical costs, the discussion series Racism in Healthcare takes… Continue reading Racism in Healthcare: COVID-19 Exposes Deep Inequities in the American Healthcare System

On Sunday morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Reverend Dr. Ambrose Carroll Sr. steps into the pulpit as a guest preacher at Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland, a largely Black and Latino working-class community. Outside, the Oakland streets are damp from three continuous weeks of rare, record-breaking rainstorms that pummeled Northern… Continue reading Green The Church: One Pastor’s Mission to Bring Environmentalism to the Black Community

At 82, Robert Taylor feels fortunate that he is relatively healthy aside from some unexplained dizziness. The same can’t be said for many of his family members and neighbors where he lives in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana: His brother died from lung cancer, and his mother from bone cancer. Her brother and his… Continue reading Fighting for Cleaner Air in ‘Cancer Alley’

I know what it means to mourn. I know what it means to look at what was once a life full of joy and levity — only to see heaviness and despair left as the fruits of the harvest of life. Since 2017, I’ve been in a free fall, rattled by loss. In a five-year… Continue reading How Black Joy Has Helped One Writer Deal With Grief

We are deep in the throes of the holiday season and everything that comes along with it. The end of the year is typically a time of celebration and social gatherings, but with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the unknowns about the rapidly spreading omicron variant, and continued social-distancing restrictions, these traditions still aren’t possible for… Continue reading What the Black Community Needs to Know About the ‘Holiday Blues’