The contemporary health disparities examined in this project have their roots in a long history of medical racism. Five examples are chronicled below.| AP NEWS
This story is part two of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part three of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part one of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part four of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part five of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part three of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part four of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part two of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
This story is part five of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
The AP spent the past year exploring how the legacy of racism in America has laid the foundation for the health inequities that Black people face.| AP NEWS
This story is part one of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.| AP NEWS
The pattern of mass killings is random and unpredictable, but there are some common elements — as this database shows. It is a collaboration between The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University, and it tracks mass killings in the United States going back to 2006.| AP NEWS
School attendance has hit record lows since the pandemic. More than a quarter of kids were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year.| AP NEWS