Health and Wellness : Racism causes high infertility in Black women

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Racism causes high infertility in Black women​

Racism causes high infertility in Black women

Racist myths about Black women's fertility are contributing to Black women being twice as infertile as white women.

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Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief​

Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief

Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand. First, there was Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, home last March. Then there was George Floyd, whose Memorial Day killing by a Minneapolis officer sparked global protests.

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Fatal police violence may be linked to preterm births in neighborhoods nearby​

Fatal police violence may be linked to preterm births in neighborhoods nearby

A demonstration in New York City in June 2020 denounces systemic racism and the police killings of African Americans. Scott Heins via Getty ImagesBuilding on generations of work by activists and organizers, there is currently a national reckoning with the impacts of police violence on Black...

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A demonstration in New York City in June 2020 denounces systemic racism and the police killings of African Americans. Scott Heins via Getty Images

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Dana Goin, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Francisco

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Brain scans of Black women who experience racism show trauma-like effects, putting them at higher risk for future health problems​

Brain scans of Black women who experience racism show trauma-like effects, putting them at higher risk for future health problems

Your experiences affect your brain – and your brain affects your health. John Lamparski/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Black women who have experienced more racism throughout their lives have stronger brain responses to...

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Your experiences affect your brain – and your brain affects your health. John Lamparski/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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Sierra Carter, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University

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A White Woman Told Me She Doesn't 'Think Of' Me As Black. Here's How I Reacted​

A White Woman Told Me She Doesn't 'Think Of' Me As Black. Here's How I Reacted.

"Irrespective of the neighborhood in which I live, regardless of how articulate I might seem, all I am and all I ever will be to some people is Black."

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Please don’t think for a minute that we have the same experience when we step off this campus, I thought. Do you imagine that affluence trumps race out there in the real world? Because honestly, it is the other way around.

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