Tag: racism

Benjamin Welton has recently been revealed to be the author behind a slew of white nationalist and racist propaganda that has been published on social media and on known alt-right websites, according to reports. The reason why this news is so alarming is because up until this week, Welton’s day job was teaching elementary school.

Alumni and current students and residents at the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, have exploded in outrage at the removal of Princess Dennar, MD, from her position as program director of its internal medicine-pediatrics residency program on February 11. That decision, which Dennar claims is a direct result of a lawsuit she

Recent years have shed more and more light on the day-to-day trauma racism inflicts on Black people — particularly young Black men and boys — in an age when these incidents are not only too common, but captured on camera and shared on a massive scale. Earlier in January, a 14-year-old Black boy was wrongfully

Dr. Susan Moore, a Black physician in Indianapolis, died December 20 from COVID-19 after documenting what she said was mistreatment due to her race.  Moore said her reports of pain were only acknowledged when scans confirmed worsening lung complications, and that she was discharged too early. "Those people were trying to kill me," she said. 

Structural racism can lead to discrimination in many aspects of life including criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education. A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examines the impact of structural racism on health and confirms that chronic exposure to stressors leads to a marked erosion of health

At the end of last year, Dr Radhakrishna Shanbhag made headlines when a patient asked if he could have a white doctor instead of him. In a powerful interview, Dr Shanbhag called our national health service a jewel in the crown, but one that needs to take appropriate action to stop the jewel from being

This story is from Kaiser Health News It’s Saturday morning and the women of the Contreras family are busy in Montclair, Calif., making pupusas, tamales and tacos. They’re working to replace the income of José Contreras, who has been held since last June at Southern California’s Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a privately run immigration detention

Report: US Therapists See Increase in Patients With ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ Just in time for Valentime's day, a sex therapist has some warm thoughts and a kooky theory for what may putting people out of the mood for love: It's mostly President Trump's fault, with a little help from racism and America's "war worship." Dr.

Before getting her hair braided in late June, model Salem Mitchell had a long, wavy weave. You might have caught her with it in her stunning Savage X Fenty campaign. As many may know, leave-outs, a small section of natural hair that is straightened to help blend the weave, are about as volatile on a