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Study reveals staggering toll of being Black in America


Race and ethnicity - Prison Policy Initiative

Percent of Black Americans in the general U.S. population: 13% + · Percent of people in prison or jail who are Black: 37% + · Prison ...

The COVID Racial Data Tracker

Nationwide, Black people have died at 1.4 times the rate of white people. Deaths per 100,000 people by race or ethnicity through March 7, 2021. Black or African ...

Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics

The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Research Center ...

Why Black Americans are more likely to be saddled with medical debt

Health care debt in the U.S. now affects more than 100 million people, a KHN-NPR investigation found. But the toll has been especially high on ...

Bridging the gap to address Black mental health disparities | Pursuit

The 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that of the 21% of Black and African Americans who had a mental health concern, ...

Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 ... - PNAS

Our estimates indicate an unprecedented mortality increase for Latinos, exceeding that for the Black population, that would eliminate over 70% of the previous ...

Excess Death Creates a Vicious Cycle in Black Communities

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows the extent to which racial disparities in the prevention and ...

A staggering toll of 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years for Black ...

A staggering toll of 1.6 million excess deaths over 22 years for Black America. Research has shown that Black people live sicker lives and die ...

What Democrats Can Learn from America's First Black Voters | TIME

The death toll of what some scholars have termed the “Killing Fields of 1868” is impossible to tabulate, but contemporaries estimated it to be ...

Global Perspective on U.S. Health Care - Commonwealth Fund

Learn about the cross-national comparisons of health care systems of U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use to other ...

Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures

Older Black Americans are about twice as likely to have Alzheimer's or other ... The special report survey revealed three recommendations for health care systems ...

Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America - Urban Institute

... having three times as much wealth as Black families. By 2022, when ... Research shows that even at higher income levels racial wealth gaps remain.

Study: Black Americans suffered a staggering 1.6M excess deaths ...

According to KFF Health News, a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA found that Black people's higher mortality rate from 1999 to ...

The State of Mental Health in America

Mental Health America (MHA) is dedicated to the promotion of mental health, well-being, and illness prevention. We envision a world in which all people and ...

Race and the Schooling of Black Americans - The Atlantic

For another thing, survey after survey shows that even poor black Americans value education highly, often more than whites. Also, as I will ...

Mental Health By the Numbers | NAMI

You Are Not Alone · Non-Hispanic Asian: 16.4% · Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 18.1% · Non-Hispanic Black or African American: 21.4% ...

Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACP

35% of the individuals executed under the death penalty within the last 40 years have been Black. African Americans represent only 13% of the general population ...

Social Media and Youth Mental Health - HHS.gov

A longitudinal cohort study of U.S. adolescents aged 12–15 (n=6,595) that adjusted for baseline mental health status found that adolescents who spent more ...

Suicide statistics - AFSP

Much lower rates were found among Black or African Americans (8.60 per 100,000) and Asians and Pacific Islanders (6.93 per 100,000). Discover mental health ...

Black Women Over Three Times More Likely to Die in Pregnancy ...

Black Women Over Three Times More Likely to Die in Pregnancy, Postpartum Than White Women, New Research Finds ... Stark racial disparities in U.S. ...