Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

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🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Nationwide, black Americans live three years less than white Americans. In places with a history of segregation, that life-expectancy gap can be as much as twenty years. Staff writer Olga Khazan joins Matt Thompson, Alex Wagner, and Vann Newkirk to share the story of Kiarra Boulware, a young black woman from Baltimore whose struggles shed a light on how people living only a few miles apart have such disparate health prospects Links - “Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” (Olga Khazan, July/August 2018 Issue - “The 'Horrifying' Consequence of Lead Poisoning” (Olga Khazan, November 8, 2017) - “The Lead-Poisoned Generation in New Orleans” (Vann R. Newkirk II, May 21, 2017) - “How Income Affects the Brain” (Olga Khazan, May 15, 2018) - “The Obesity Cure Is Out of Reach in the Heaviest States” (Olga Khazan, May 7, 2018) - “Trump's EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real” (Vann R. Newkirk II, February 28, 2018) - “Food Swamps Are the New Food Deserts” (Olga Khazan, December 28, 2017) - “What the 'Crack Baby' Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic” (Vann R. Newkirk II, July 16, 2017) - “The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights” (Vann R. Newkirk II, June 27, 2017) - “VIDEO: Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow” (Vann R. Newkirk II, June 5, 2017) - “When You Can't Afford Sleep” (Olga Khazan, September 15, 2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.6	Rethink, the branded content studio at the Atlantic and Howzer and Worth.
0:29.4	Being Black in America can be hazardous to your health. On average, black Americans can
0:36.4	expect to lose three years from their lives compared to white Americans. In places like
0:41.8	Baltimore with the history of segregation, that life
0:44.6	expectancy gap can be as much as 20 years. What causes this mortality gap?
0:51.5	And what should we be doing about it?
0:54.0	This is the Atlantic.
1:13.6	With me, over there in New York is my esteemed co-host Alex Waggner.
1:17.9	Hello, Alex.
1:19.6	Hi Matt, it is great to hear your voice as always.
1:22.4	And likewise.
1:24.0	Here in DC, I am delighted to be joined by our staff writer Van Newkirk,
1:30.0	hi Van.
1:32.0	And making a Radio Atlantic debut.
1:35.0	Staff writer Olga Kazan, hello Olga.
1:40.0	Hello. Hello.
1:41.0	Greetings. Now, Olga, you've written about science and health for us for years, and in our latest issue of the magazine
1:48.8	we published a story by you that pulls together what I would say are some of the strands of your reporting. you're being black in America can be hazardous to your health. On average you
2:04.9	right black Americans live about three years less than white folks and in some
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