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Jun 3, 2020 · In Minneapolis, a collection of 49 names — a partial list of black men and women who have died in encounters with police or white private citizens since 2006 — stretches down Chicago Avenue.
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Feb 22, 2021 · The country’s pervasive health inequities were evidenced by a tragic tally of 74,402 excess deaths, on average, among Black people compared with white people each year between 2016 and 2018, according to an analysis of all-cause mortality rates in the 30 largest U.S. cities.
Jan 25, 2022 · During the past year, the dual crises of the covid-19 pandemic and police violence have opened many people’s eyes to the ways in which the political construct of race—and anti-Black racism in particular—continue to determine who lives and who dies in the United States.
May 17, 2023 · From 1999 to 2020, Black Americans experienced 1.63 million excess deaths compared to white Americans. This resulted in 80 million years of life lost. COVID widened that gap in deaths even further,...
Official counts place the death toll at 39 black and 9 white individuals, but locals argue that the real toll was closer to 100. A watershed moment for the burgeoning civil rights movement...
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the US, Black, Latino and Native Americans were among the hardest hit and Asians became the targets of racist attacks in 2020. The killings of George Floyd and...
Jun 6, 2023 · Eighty-two million years—that’s how much lifetime the U.S.’s Black population lost because of premature deaths between 1999 and 2020, a new study shows. The numbers are an alarming reminder...
