Research shows that experiencing racism and sexism is linked to a host of health issues. No one knows if this was a factor in the deaths of prominent Black women lately, but it's got me thinking.
For context on this issue, I turned to University of Pennsylvania professor Walter Palmer. “No other group in America has suffered the way that African Americans have,” he told me.
Living with racism for 400 years has surely had a “profound impact” on Black people’s health, he said.But Epps, Montague, and Oliver were not only Black. They were also female, which carries a whole other set of issues.mostly male upper hierarchies of. Namely, the more sexism women are exposed to at work or at home, the more likely they are to have chronic conditions and rate their health poorly.
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