The study found the age-adjusted death rate among the Black population declined until 2011, shrinking the disparity in excess deaths compared to the White population. Progress stalled until 2019 ...

Data from death certificates showed that 1.63 million more Black people died, compared with the white population, over the 22 years of the study, which was published last month in the Journal of ...

it all adds up to poor health outcomes and premature death for Black people. The White House recently released initiatives to improve opportunities for Black Americans, including efforts to lower ...

The death rate for white Americans has recently exceeded the rates for Black, Latino and Asian Americans. By David Leonhardt One of the defining characteristics of the pandemic’s early stages ...

Five years after George Floyd's death sparked massive protests, Black Lives Matter movement confronts political backlash and ...

In the long sequence of high-profile deaths of Black men at the hands of police, the death of Tyre Nichols in ... or views of Black people as white police officers might," said Ralph Richard ...

Mortality rates were 92% higher in Black vs. white infants in the 1950s and 115 ... “The question of whether this excess burden of death contributes to persistent disparities in both childhood ...