Uche Blackstock

May 6, 2024 | ourtimepress.com | Uche Blackstock

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in MedicineBy Uché Blackstock, MD Viking, 278. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.” Harriet Washington, Medical ApartheidDr. Uché Blackstock’s Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (Viking, 2024) is a chilling reminder of the inequities faced by many Black and Brown people in the healthcare system.

Apr 30, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Uche Blackstock |Abrahm Lustgarten |Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including over twenty-five years at the New York Times, in roles as diverse as op-ed columnist, White House correspondent, Rome bureau chief, and chief restaurant critic. He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. In July 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University, teaching in the School of Public Policy.

Apr 25, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Uche Blackstock |Abrahm Lustgarten |Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz is a professor of economics, public policy, and business at Columbia University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. Formerly, he was the senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, as well as a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton administration. Below, Joseph shares five key insights from his new book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.

Feb 26, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Isaiah Thompson |Uche Blackstock |Lora Smith |Steve Dubb

Despite spending more than any other country on healthcare, Americans are significantly less healthy than people living in peer countries—profoundly so when it comes to Black Americans in particular. From shorter life expectancy to abysmal rates of child mortality to higher incidence of chronic health conditions, Black Americans continue to see poorer outcomes from medicine than their White peers.

Feb 13, 2024 | gatekeepersnews.com | Uche Blackstock |Fehintola Ambali-Salam

When I was a little girl, my twin sister, Oni, and I used to visit our mother at work. Her name was Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock and, in the 1980s and ’90s, she was an attending physician at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, not far from our home in Crown Heights. Our mother worked long hours. So sometimes, we’d head to the hospital after school to see her and do our homework.