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Black Americans face consistently worse health outcomes than white, Asian, and Hispanic Americans. Black women are 2½ times more likely to die of maternal causes than white women and this rate increases to 3 times when compared to Hispanic Americans. [35] The infant mortality rate for Black Americans is 11 per 1,000 births which is higher than ...
Only 11% of white Americans live in stable cities. Fewer Black Americans live in the suburbs (which McKinsey calls the “urban periphery”), which is about the only place where they tend to have ...
Despite this, racism against Black Americans remains widespread in the U.S., as does socioeconomic inequality between black and white Americans. [a] [2] In 1863, two years prior to emancipation, Black people owned 0.5 percent of the national wealth, while in 2019 it is just over 1.5 percent. [3]
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
The median net worth of Black families is $142,330 — or just one-seventh of the $980,550 in wealth accumulated by white Americans, according to a new study from LendingTree.
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African American women face greater chances than white women to have chronic stress which can stem from living in impoverished neighborhoods or encountering discrimination. These embedded stressors as a result of societal inequities and prejudice could largely explain the underlying health disparities in negative birth outcomes.
The health inequities for Black Americans, documented in a series of stories by The Associated Press, have their roots in a long history of medical racism. James Marion Sims, a 19th century ...