COVID, Racism Are Dual Crises for Black Americans
TheCut.com: “The Little Understood Mental-Health Effects of Racial Trauma.”
TheAtlantic.com: “How Racism Kills Black Americans.”
Michigan University School of Public Health: “Surviving the Coronavirus While Black: Pandemic’s Heavy Toll on African American Mental Health.”
Patrice Harris, MD, immediate past president, American Medical Association.
American Public Health Association: “Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue.”
American Public Health Association: “Racism and Health.”
American Psychological Association: “Racial Trauma: Theory, Research, and Healing: Introduction to Special Issue.”
The Harvard Gazette: “Big Impact of Microaggressions.”
SSRN: “The Effect of President Trump’s Election on Hate Crimes.”
The New York Times: “Hate Crime Violence Hits 16-year High, FBI Reports.”
The Climate Reality Project: “The Quest for Environmental Justice and the Politics of Place and Race.”
UNC Center for Health and Equity: “Evidence Brief: Health Equity Implications of Police Violence.”
American Medical Association: “Police brutality must stop.”
African American Policy Forum: “Say Her Name Report.”
Journal of Counseling Psychology: “Experiencing racial microaggressions influences suicide ideation through perceived burdensomeness in African Americans.”
Johns Hopkins Medicine: “Coronavirus in African Americans and Other People of Color.”
Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology: “Chronic Stress exposure among young African American Children with asthma.”
CDC: “COVID 19 in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups.”
William & Mary Journal on Race, Gender, and Social Justice: “The Violent State: Black Women’s Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence.”
National Library of Medicine.
McKinsey & Company: “The Future of Work in Black America.”
National Library of Medicine: “Seemingly Harmless Racial Communications Are Not So Harmless: Racial Microaggressions Lead to Suicidal Ideation by Way of Depression Symptoms.”
CDC: “People Who Are of Higher Risk For Severe Illness.”
National Library of Medicine: “Police Brutality and Black Health: Setting the Agenda for Public Health Scholars.”
MLive: “The shooting, punching & arrests: 45 minutes of bodycam footage of altercation between deputy, Ypsilanti woman released.”
Human Impact Partners: “Stress on the Streets (SOS): Race, Policing, Health, and Increasing Trust Not Trauma.”
National Center for Biotechnology Information: “Social Correlates of the Chronic Stress of Perceived Racism Among Black Women.”
NIH.gov: “Physiological Responses to Racism and Discrimination: An Assessment of the Evidence.”
ScienceDaily: “Racism has a toxic effect.”
