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Movies have seriously dropped the ball when it comes to presenting Black fathers, they're either total stereotypes or just missing.
A Black mother from Colorado shared a viral video of her children admiring her children for their blue eyes and blonde hair. Yes, her Black children. Despite the seemingly odd chance of these features ...
A candid conversation about the reality of parenting Black children, from having “the talk” to celebrating cultural traditions and honoring the legacy of trailblazers.
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A sweeping new analysis of U.S. mortality data over the past 70 years reveals that Black children in the United States have consistently faced significantly higher mortality rates than their White ...
Racial inequality in US infant and child mortality rates have not decreased in 70 years, with Black Americans having nearly twice the risk for death compared to their White counterparts.
If mortality rates for Black Americans were equal to those of White Americans, a total of 5.0 million excess deaths (including 522,617 infants) could have been avoided during these seven decades.
A new report published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine titled "Excess Mortality Rate in Black Children Since 1950 in the United States: A 70-Year Population-Based Study of Racial ...
Mortality rates were 92% higher in Black vs. white infants in the 1950s and 115% higher in the 2010s. Nearly 690,000 deaths among Black youth could have been avoided if mortality rates were equal.
WHEN SHE HAD HER BABY, I WAS EXTREMELY SCARED AND FEARFUL THAT SHE WOULDN’T MAKE IT. THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION SAYS BLACK MOTHERS ARE THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE DURING ...
Abortion bans in 14 US states correlated with a 5.60% increase in infant mortality, resulting in 478 excess deaths. Non-Hispanic Black infants experienced a 10.98% relative increase in mortality ...
Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still ...