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

KFF Health News

. “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. ” Past and Present The end of slavery gave way to laws that denied Black people in the U.S. Learn more about KFF.