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Researchers are trying to understand why black and Latino children are more likely to die of certain cancers.

Why Are Black And Latino Kids More Likely To Die Of Certain Cancers?

7:02pm August 20, 2018

by Erin Blakemore

There's a big survival gap between white and minority children when it comes to some childhood cancers. It turns out growing up in poverty explains a lot of the difference.

Racial and ethnic disparities persist in sudden unexplained infant deaths.

Racial And Ethnic Disparities Persist In Sudden Infant Deaths

10:52am May 15, 2017

by Katherine Hobson

Babies in Native American and Alaska Native families are at higher risk of sudden unexplained infant death, despite years of effort to reduce the toll. African-American families also face higher risk.

Genes may have a role in increasing blood pressure in African Americans when someone close to them experiences racial discrimination.

Knowing Someone Who Faced Discrimination May Affect Blood Pressure

4:43pm December 21, 2016

by Rob Stein

Seeing someone close to you experience racial discrimination may have more of an effect on health than experiencing that discrimination yourself, a study finds.

Lack of access to quality medical care remains a major factor in higher breast cancer death rates among African-Americans.

Breast Cancer Death Rates Are Down, But Racial Disparities Persist

5:08pm October 13, 2016

by Nancy Shute

Black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than are white women, and that's especially true for older women, the CDC reports. Lack of access to quality health care is a big factor.

The discrimination that weighs down black people's wages begins before they're hired and continues long after.

Racial Disparities In Wages Boil Down To One Thing: Discrimination

11:27pm September 23, 2016

by Gene Demby

A new study found that a major reason for the gap in wages between black and white workers is what's left over after controlling for variables like education and experience.

Thomas Wydra, the police chief of Hamden, Conn., decided to reform his department's traffic stop criteria after the department was singled out for stopping minority drivers at disproportionately higher rates than whites. After decreasing the number of def

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To Reduce Bias, Some Police Departments Are Rethinking Traffic Stops

7:00pm July 25, 2016

by Jeff Cohen

In Hamden, Conn., minority drivers were pulled over more often than whites for defective equipment, such as broken taillights. So the police changed their strategy.

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Wilson Ramos got a tattoo of his brother's name, Jose "Cheo" Maldonado, inked on his right forearm in memory of Maldonado, who died after a police officer shot him with a stun gun inside a jail cell in East Hartford, Conn.

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Who Gets Tased? First Statewide Study Reveals Racial Disparities

6:34pm June 30, 2016

by Hansi Lo Wang

Connecticut is the first state requiring police fill out a form when they use a stun gun. Research shows police used stun guns on black and Latino suspects at a higher rate than on white suspects.

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A nurse checks a man's blood pressure during a health clinic In Los Angeles.

Managed Care Plans Make Progress In Erasing Racial Disparities

4:25pm December 17, 2014

by Lisa Aliferis

Though blacks still lag whites nationwide in health, disparities have been largely eliminated in the western states, a study finds. Kaiser Permanente's Medicare HMOs did best on that.