We like to think children are safe from dealing with the realities of racism and systemic oppression, but a new study has ...

Black children are more than twice as likely to die as white kids This gap extends back to the 1950s A total 690,000 deaths among Black children could have been avoided if their death rates were the ...

A population-based surveillance study evaluated the extent and persistence of excess infant and childhood mortality among Black Americans between 1950 and 2019.

From 1950 to 2019, 5.0 million excess deaths of Black Americans could have been avoided if mortality rates were equal to those of Whites.