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The infant mortality rate for Black children, for example, is more than twice that of white children ... But infant and maternal mortality are only part of the health risks plaguing the African American community ... Incarceration rates of African Americans in general remain 5.6 times greater than of white Americans....

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Coronavirus pandemic should spur family talk about financial planning, too

Chicago Sun-Times 04 Jul 2020

“While I’m living or when I’m no longer here or if I’m here and not capable of handling matters, I can designate whoever I want to handle things — and how I want it handled,” said Alexander, who is planning a new career aimed at reducing the African American infant-mortality rate ......

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Letter: Community Health Centers

Tillamook Headlight Herald 02 Jul 2020

The Tillamook County Community Health Centers and the Community Health Council, acknowledge the tragic recent and persistent violence against our African American community ... overall mortality, diabetes and cardiac related mortality, infant mortality, and psychological distress....

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$75M Federal Grant Includes Cincinnati Children's in Drive to Increase Diversity in Genomic Research

The Concord Township News-Herald 01 Jul 2020

Developing risk assessments that better account for people of African, Latino and Asian heritages will lead to better treatments better tailored for specific communities and better public health for all, Harley says,. Cincinnati Children's will be recruiting up to 2,500 African-American mothers and infants to collect entire sets of genomic data ... �....

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Black and white people live in two different Americas

Quad-City Times 29 Jun 2020

For African Americans, hardship begins before birth....

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Tillamook County makes Black Lives Matter statement

Tillamook Headlight Herald 26 Jun 2020

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US infant mortality rates decline, CDC study says, but Black infants still twice as likely ...

The Philadelphia Tribune 25 Jun 2020

The age of women giving birth climbed as infant death rates declined in the United States between 2000 and 2017, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the welcome news was tempered by the fact that Black infants still have over twice the risk of dying as White infants, experts pointed out....

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Museum opens with virtual exhibit of 'Etchings to Pastels'

The Post and Courier 24 Jun 2020

The Charleston Museum recently reopened and did a Facebook virtual showing of its new “From Etchings to Pastels” exhibit, a collaboration with The Pastel Society, on display until October ... Regan ... Mary E ... A good example is “Maum Tina,” an Elizabeth O’Neill Verner creation that illustrates an African American nanny holding her infant charge....

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San Jose clothing line helps elephant conservation groups be ‘herd’

East Bay Times 22 Jun 2020

When he told her it cost $2,000, she was shocked ... The company’s products feature a drawing of two elephants, one adult and one baby, and come in a range of styles, from sweatshirts to baseball caps to infant onesies. Many feature the number 352,271—the number of elephants remaining in 18 African countries, according to a 2016 census ... Related Articles....

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Local clothing line helps elephant conservation groups be ‘herd’

The Mercury News 21 Jun 2020

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Windsor town council joins national movement in declaring racism a public health crisis

Hartford Courant 17 Jun 2020

Black-Burke’s resolution says racism and segregation have over time created disparate outcomes in health, housing, education, employment and criminal justice, and the impacts have included higher stress levels, lower infant birth rates and more recently higher rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the African-American and Latino communities....

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U.S. Supreme Court decision protects LGBTQ workers – but Ohio advocates say more work is needed: The Wake Up for Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Cleveland 16 Jun 2020

Plenty of sunshine is in the forecast today, with highs in the upper 70s ... Read more. The headlines ... 1 ... Infants and toddlers of color are more likely to be born prematurely, have low birth weight and live in challenging environments, reports Julie Washington ... Mortality is more than twice as high for African-American infants as it is for white babies ... ....

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Babies of color face challenges that deny them strong start in life, new national report says

Cleveland 15 Jun 2020

Mortality is more than twice as high for African-American infants as it is for white babies ... But the percentage of African-American and Hispanic infants and toddlers living in poverty were higher than the national average ... But the rate of infant death among African-American babies was still high....