Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley· Updated January 4, 2023
The New England Journal of Medicine says that “Slavery has produced a legacy of racism, injustice, and brutality that runs from 1619 to the present, and that legacy infects medicine as it does all social institutions.”
This is especially evident in the way Black mothers and their infants are treated in today’s healthcare system.
As the Washington Post points out, the black infant
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