'Our medical system needs to recognize how black people are the victims of its exploits and must strive to cut the thread, woven into modern history, of mistreating black Americans.'
were 12 and 14 years old when their mother, who was illiterate, signed an X on a piece of paper that she believed would authorize doctors to give the girls a birth control shot. Instead, the girls were forcibly sterilized.
The continuous mistreatment of black Americans and the racism rooted in our medical system defines the health risks experienced by black women and men today. A 2016 report by Cigna showed how black Americans experience
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