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  • A close-up photo of hands as a Black child sits on their grandparent's lap.

    U.S. Life Expectancy Has Plummeted, Especially for Black and Latinx People

    The steep decline was fueled by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report detailed in The New York Times.
    Shani Saxon Jul 26, 2021 12:28PM EDT
    Black Baby. Black baby in diaper holding onto Black mother.

    Because of Race, Black Americans Might as Well Live in Another Country

    In comparison data to other nations, Bloomberg showed that the Black infant mortality rate more than doubled the U.S.’s average.
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Jul 15, 2020 2:30PM EDT

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