Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...
Residents in some neighborhoods of Los Angeles live in food deserts, creating systematic barriers to healthy eating. The nonprofit organization Food Empowerment Project defines a “food desert” as a ...
*Have you ever heard the expression, “When the White community catches a cold, the Black community gets pneumonia?” It’s commonly said and repeated in the Black communities and is no exaggeration. The ...
Systemic racism and the "legacy of slavery" could be responsible for up to 80% of Black people’s health issues, a doctor argued on MSNBC Saturday. Dr. Uché Blackstock, author of the book "Legacy: A ...
W. Edwards Deming, a forward-thinking American who helped engineer the Japanese economic miracle and was the father of the continuous quality improvement philosophy, wrote that 94% of issues in the ...