By Mylika ScatliffeAFRO Women’s Health Writer mscatliffe@afro.com “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane because it often results in physical death.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 55 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., we are still grappling with the institutional and systemic […]
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Black veterans and inaccessibility to mental health resources
By Sam JudyThe Dallas Weekly News (NNPA Newswire) ━ Despite taking the same risk of death and costly sacrifice to their mental wellbeing, Black Veterans continue to suffer as mental health services are statistically less accessible to them than their White counterparts. Institutional racism continues to persist as the Department of Veterans Affairs has acknowledged […]