Greetings!
This is Wednesday, a day we we like to organize around our Health and Education coverage. So it's fitting that our lead story for today is news that medical luminary Dr. Greg Hall has joined University Hospitals and will be heading up its new Cutler Center for Men. We don't know yet all that entails, but with Dr. Charles Modlin now at MetroHealth, and the Cleveland Clinic having pledged to resume its Minority Men's Health Fair [started by Dr. Modlin], black men certainly seem to have a broad array of choices for maintaining and improving our health.
In other health-related news:
• when black patients are treated by black doctors, the outcomes are better. This report focuses on implications of that fact, especially for black women and the AIDS-HIV epidemic.
• we also carry a report out of Pittsburgh confirming that racial disparities compound covid risk, and perhaps more importantly, how black leaders in that city organized to address the issue.
• You already know this, but food and mood are connected in ways you should pay attention to, especially during this holiday season.
• And is it the racial dynamics of sex, or the sexual dynamics of race at play here? What we do know is the constant mental health cost of being black in America.
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As always, thanks for reading!
R. T. Andrews
Top three posts from last week:
- Calling Mayor Blackwell
- Ohio lawmakers hire lawyers who defended ‘largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered’
- Emilia Sykes to step down as House Minority Leader
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