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Topic: systemic racism

Morris Brown, a primary care physician, says that South Carolina lawmakers’ refusal to expand Medicaid will result in preventable deaths because many people who live near his medical offices in Kingstree and Lake City cannot afford to go to a doctor. (Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News)

Black Americans suffer worse health

Fred Clasen-Kelly, Renuka Rayasam - KFF Health News
Aerial view of the Interstate 10 junction with Highway 90 near downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. (Getty Images/Art Wager)

Racist legacy of a New Orleans highway

Drew Hawkins - KFF Health News
A pregnant woman in the foreground as the unrecognizable doctor shows her an ultrasound (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Allow midwives to save lives in Alabama

Stephanie Mitchell, Avital Norman Nathman
People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. | Head Coach Jon Gruden of the Oakland Raiders (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gruden saga and a safe space for racism

Amanda Marcotte
In this still image from video provided by the Tennessee General Assembly, Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the State Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Lafferty falsely declared that an 18th century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for “the purpose of ending slavery,” commenting amid a debate over whether educators should be restricted while teaching about systematic racism in America. (Tennessee General Assembly)

Republicans suddenly defend slavery

Jon Skolnik
Lamorne Morris in "Woke" (Joe Lederer/Hulu)

Hulu's Woke tentatively pokes at racism

Melanie McFarland
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Courtesy of Author/Seal Press)

My white-privilege wakeup call

Lauren Schiller
Rand Paul; Jeff Sessions (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Paul sours on Jeff Sessions

Matthew Rozsa
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with Ellen Degeneres during a commercial break at a taping of The Ellen Show in Burbank, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
(Reuters)

Lew Daly
Protestors walk through smoke Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP)

Baltimore's history of death

Adam Gaffney
Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/Chick Harrity/Patrick Semansky/Photo montage by Salon)

America's toxic MLK ignorance

Chauncey DeVega
Police move a protester back, Baltimore, April 27, 2015. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Dear white Facebook friends...

Julia Blount
Gwyneth Paltrow (Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

White America is Gwyneth

Brittney Cooper
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-781327p1.html'>fotostory</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Chomsky on American racism

Luke Brinker

The right's vile Ferguson ploy

Elias Isquith
Robbin Shipp

"The game is rigged"

Elias Isquith
Michael Dunn (Reuters/Bob Mack)

Katie McDonough