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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

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“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according to a 2023 JAMA study. The design of the U.S. Learn more about KFF.