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The Hispanic and Asian population of the United States has rapidly increased in the late 20th and 21st centuries, and the African American percentage of the U.S. population is slowly increasing as well since reaching a low point of less than ten percent in 1930.
Oct 8, 2021 · Census statistics date back to 1790 and reflect the growth and change of the United States. Past census reports contain some terms that today’s readers may consider obsolete and inappropriate. As part of our goal to be open and transparent with the public, we are improving access to all Census Bureau original publications and statistics ...
Jul 12, 2019 · The 1918–1919 “Spanish Flu” Pandemic infected a third of the global population, killing an estimated 50–100 million globally (2.5%–5.0%) and 675,000 in the United States (0.7%) [ 1, 2, 3 ]. The only year in the 20th century when black people in the USA had lower influenza mortality than white people was 1918.
- Helene P. Økland, Svenn-Erik Mamelund
- 2019
Oct 20, 2011 · Over the full century, among the 27 states with the largest total Black population, the highest rates of change were for Wisconsin, California, Michigan, Connecticut and New York, and the highest absolute growth were in New York, Florida, Texas and California.
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Today’s coronavirus pandemic is the only public health crisis in the last hundred years as profoundly disruptive to society as the 1918 flu. And like the 1918 pandemic, it has unmasked persistent racial injustice. According to the COVID Racial Data Tracker, one of the most reliable sources of data on racial disparities in today’s catastrophe, as of...
Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and the social structures and economic systems that shape these conditions. These determinants explain almost everything about the racial disparities in risk, illness, and death that have unfolded throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Well before COVID...
Pandemics can unleash anger and blame—often pointed in the wrong direction. “There are long-standing interpretations that say the people who are to blame for these disparities are the people who experience them. Their bodies aren’t good enough. They don’t listen to instructions,” says Bassett. “This has been the prevailing mantra. Although people g...
One way to shift the conversation is to rigorously gather data about health disparities and mandate through laws or regulations that this data be made public. Gathering such statistics, after all, is a core function of public health. As Krieger says, “It’s an age-old adage: No data, no problem.” Early data from the CDC was full of holes, making it ...
In May, during the first deadly wave of COVID-19, a Black man named George Floyd was arrested for a minor offense in Minneapolis and restrained for more than eight minutes by a white officer’s knee to the neck, killing Floyd. When a cell-phone video of Floyd’s death went viral, it set off protests across the United States and in many countries worl...
In this roiling time, people are eager to understand the roots of racism and its effects on the health of individuals and communities. According to Villarosa, “Right now, there’s a hunger for more information and a greater understanding. And right now may be the pinnacle of it, because there’s the combination of people having more time to consume a...
The 1918 flu pandemic and the 2020 coronavirus pandemic are both prisms on racial injustice—the “Dementia Americana” that the Chicago Defenderdiagnosed more than a century ago. “When you have a public health crisis, an infectious disease that is sickening and killing people, it brings out in some ways the best of people—those who are health care pr...
When the 1918 influenza epidemic began, African American communities were already beset by many public health, medical, and social problems, including racist theories of black biological inferiority, racial barriers in medicine and public health, and poor health status.
Oct 15, 2014 · Some 350,000 to 400,000 African Americans served in the American Expeditionary Forces, which fought on the Western Front between 1917 and 1918. They made up the largest minority group in the American military contingent involved in the First World War, hoping to gain recognition and respect for their service to their country.
