A new study found that pregnant Latinx and Black women in poor neighborhoods were two and three times more likely to face life-threatening childbirth than women in richer ones.
Conversely, the American Heart Association found that African Americans and people from the Caribbean have the highest risk for heart attacks and strokes.
Says lead author Eduardo Tarazona-Santos: “During the last 500 years, in the Americas, people of different African origins and from different populations have admixed more in the Americas than in Africa.”
Rashad Robinson, Color of Change: “The scripted crime genre provides daily proof of how far we have to go when it comes to rewriting the rules of the industry to ensure authentic, accurate and non-dehumanizing portrayals of Black people and the issues that affect Black people.”
