Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health by Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, July/August 2018

Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health by Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, July/August 2018.  In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

"But it is also a bigger story, of how African Americans became stuck in profoundly unhealthy neighborhoods, and of how the legacy of racism can literally take years off their lives. Far from being a relic of the past, America’s racist and segregationist history continues to harm black people in the most intimate of ways—seeping into their lungs, their blood, even their DNA."