Slavery Linked to Current U.S. Racial Gaps in Health and Mortality

Source: ScienceIn 1953, civil rights activist James Baldwin wrote that "people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"—an observation that would ring all too familiar to researchers studying racial health disparities in the U.S. today. A study published by the National Academies of Science, suggests that slavery may still cast a long shadow on the country's well-being, worsening health outcomes for some Black people more than 150 years after...