Black History

The currents of history—especially when we Americans struggle in the swirl of our shared BLACK HISTORY—is never constant, its ebbs and flows often clashing with the sensibilities of the age. As we appraise anew our BLACK HISTORY, our society must come together to teach today’s children what exactly we mean when we talk about JUSTICE and EQUALITY.

The persistence, for instance, of stark racial disparities in maternal and infant health that have persisted in the U.S. for decades despite vast advancements in medical care, unequal access to medical education and health care services stacked upon unequal economic opportunities for people of color that permeated a global pandemic, with resulting disproportionate deaths, pose enormous challenges that we need to meet head-on for us to thrive as a people. But how do we move forward as a people when we are mired in invectives over our shared HISTORY?