Dawn Staley is ALL CLASS taking time after winning her 3rd National Championship to say this about Caitlin Clark,

“I want to personally thank Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport…You are one of the GOATs of our game and we appreciate you.”

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The Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action, including in professional schools, like medical and nursing, will have detrimental consequences on Black health for generations to come. This is about life & death for us. Today, we are only 5% of physicians.

May 5th marks Indian Survival Day in Guyana, known as “Arrival Day” by the government. When slavery ended in 1834, the British wasted no time in exploiting a new labour force. In then British Guiana, indentureship began in 1838 with the Gladstone Experiment by John Gladstone.

On 03/12/16, our NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System sponsored a historic, action-oriented citywide symposium on dismantling racism in NYC. This year, we plan to sponsor an action-oriented forum on segregated care & tools to ensure institutional accountability.

🧵 11 years ago today, #TrayvonMartin , was killed by George Zimmerman for being Black in the ‘wrong place’ and at the ‘wrong time’. Trayvon, a 17-year-old child, was vilified, criminalized and dehumanized. He was unjustly killed and unfairly labeled as a problem child by those…

Humbled to (virtually) deliver the keynote address at Metro New York Health Care for All’s Healthcare Justice Annual Gala on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 5:30pm. Please consider donating and RSVPing here: tinyurl.com/healthcare-for…

Every dunk by MAC MCCLUNG in his almost flawless victory at the 2023 NBA Dunk Contest

Tap the glass over 2 people: 50
360 windmill: 49.8
Double Pump Reverse: 50
540!!!: 50

And made every dunk on the first try
SHAQ: 'He saved the dunk contest'

One expression of structural injustice in the United States, writes James Blum, MD, MPP, Kamini Doobay, MD, MS, and Alec Feuerbach, MD, is delivery of health care according to patients’ race and insurance status: spr.ly/60163JJTq

Happy to have contributed. Please read the entire edition of #AMAJournalofEthics for more on segregation in healthcare.

Let me congratulate the 1,200 physicians at Montefiore Health System who are forming a union. More than 40 years after their rights to unionize were taken away, they are standing up and fighting back for better working conditions and better patient care.

Among other incredible Guyanese and international speakers, I will be speaking about structural racism, the long history and colonial roots of the ongoing criminalization/dehumanization of both Indo and Afro-Guyanese, and police response to mental health crises. Join us!

This remarkable victory is significant for New Yorkers. It is a referendum that has helped to redress historical injustices, and serving as a model and beacon for other states in the country. Racial inequity is unsustainable and it’s inconsistent with the American values.

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Medicare and Medicaid allocate ~ $24 billion in subsidies to safety-net hospitals each year.

In a paper out today in JAMA Network Open, Paula Chatterjee and I show these subsidies are biased against communities of color.

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When you #VoteWFP today make sure you remember to flip your ballot.

2 yrs ago, I posted a TikTok video about Pulse Oximeters. For decades, they haven't worked as well on darker skin tones. My video received over 200K views and started my 'Racial Bias in Medicine' series.

Today a FDA advisory committee is finally convening to address the problem!

A small group of residents Montefiore Health System started organizing in 2019, when Trump era NLRB politics made explicit unionization nearly impossible. We formed a union that's finally going public today CIR/SEIU! Congrats Monte house staff! #OneHospitalOneFight bxtimes.com/montefiore-phy…