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Apr 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Tamra Burns Loeb |Alicia Morehead-Gee |Charles R. Drew |Derek Novacek

Baseball great Jackie Robinson was a living, breathing example of athleticism and apparent good health, playing four sports at UCLA and becoming the first Black man to play in major league baseball. And yet, the athletic hero and civil rights champion died at age 53, almost blind, from a heart attack, with underlying diabetes and associated complications. When Robinson died on Oct. 24, 1972, few researchers studied health disparities.

Apr 12, 2024 | goskagit.com | Tamra Burns Loeb |Alicia Morehead-Gee |Derek Novacek

Apr 12, 2024 | chronicle-tribune.com | Tamra Burns Loeb |Alicia Morehead-Gee |Derek Novacek

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