Discrimination Archives

03.26.2020 a graph of a graph with black and white lines

Completion Depends on Conditions

For Black children, the idealized American nuclear family is not enough to overcome the presence of racially motivated disadvantage.

Fellow Edward Alexander

01.24.2020 a house with graffiti on it

Health Equity

Rating Health After Redlining

Redlining, a vehicle of structural racism, is associated with slower neighborhood foreclosure recovery and poorer self-rated health among Detroit residents.

Fellow Jori Fortson

01.21.2020 a graph of black and orange lines

The White Picket Fence

The gap between White and Black homeowners has reached its widest margin in 50 years, underscoring the need for new, transformative legislation and action.

Fellow Greg Kantor

01.08.2020 a pile of prescription bottles

Pain, Prescriptions, and Prejudice

African Americans disproportionately inherit sickle cell disease and depend on opioids to cope with pain, making treatment a challenge during an epidemic.

Fellow Jori Fortson

12.02.2019 a man in a suit and tie

William Darity

PHP Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu profiles William Darity to define reparations for Black Americans and identify those responsible for enacting reparations.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

09.23.2019 a woman smiling at the camera

Nusrat Choudhury

PHP Fellow Jori Fortson profiles Nusrat Choudhury to discuss her work as a lawyer and advocate exposing and challenging modern-day debtors’ prisons.

Fellow Jori Fortson

08.28.2019 a graph of a graph of a child

Race, Place, and Health

While the practice of redlining is now illegal, the consequences of the resultant segregation are still felt today.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

04.09.2019 a graph with a line and a line

Health Equity

Documenting Delays in EMS Wait Times

One of the first studies to document delays in EMS care asks whether ambulance response times were longer in low-income versus high-income urban zip codes.

Fellow Jori Fortson

12.05.2018 Neon sign saying "As Long As You Are You"

What’s Stopping LGBTQ Progress in Schools?

Few schools are implementing the full panel of CDC-recommended policies to support LGBTQ students. Researchers interviewed school administrators and school health professionals to find out why.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

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