Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Our goal is to bring scientific evidence

and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists,

community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas

or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu.

That's public health question at jh.u.edu

for future podcast episodes.

This week, Public Health On Call commemorates

the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd,

with five podcasts produced in collaboration

with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Each podcast explores a dimension of the work

ahead to eliminate racism in all of its forms. Today's guest host is Dr. Chidinma Ibe, a faculty

member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the associate director

for stakeholder engagement at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. Dr. eBay.

Thanks, Josh. Today, we're going to talk about how racism keeps black men from accessing

economic opportunities. The most recent national data show that more than

one and five young black men are unemployed, far more than for other groups. This disparity exists

here in Baltimore as well, a city ranked lowest among 100 major jurisdictions and the percentage

of children who escape poverty later in life.

My guest is Joe Jones, the executive director of the Center for Urban Families.

Joe and his organization work to disrupt the cycle of poverty through direct services,

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