Freedom Day Didn't Free Our Health
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas heard the news. The Civil War was over. The Confederacy had fallen. And by order of the United States government, they were free. That moment became Juneteenth. Freedom Day. And it deserves every celebration we give it. The cookouts, the music, the red KoolAid, the gathering of families who once were not allowed to gather. The joy of that day is real, and it is right and it is ours. But we also have to tell the whole truth
NIAAH Editors
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The Wound Is Real. So Is the Danger
A decades-old betrayal. A present-day crisis. Both demand our attention. Let's start with the truth: Black people in America have been lied to, experimented on, and discarded by the medical establishment for as long as there has been a medical establishment. That is history. And history has a way of making the present complicated. Right now, two NYTimes stories are sitting side by side in the news, and together they capture exactly why so many of us feel pulled in two direc
NIAAH Editors
Jun 46 min read
Why Blacks are Dying from Preventable Kidney Disease
Stolen History, Stolen Health: Why Blacks are Dying from Preventable Kidney Disease Eleven thousand African Americans die every year from chronic kidney disease only found in people of West African ancestry. Why? It is because the gene variants that trigger these disorders are only carried by populations from the sodium-deficient interior of West Africa. What the history books failed to reveal is that African Americans of slave descent are not simply from West Africa. Dur
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Feb 14 min read
