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In series 'From Birth To Death,' AP reporters examine health care and racism CLICK IMAGE

At every stage of life, Black Americans grapple with health care challenges directly tied to racism. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Associated Press reporter Kat Stafford, about the year-long probe.

A large group of Americans is more likely than others to have complications and even die during childbirth, to struggle with asthma during childhood and high blood pressure during adulthood, and to develop Alzheimer's as elders. What do these Americans have in common? They're Black.

Impact of racism on the health of people of African…

Summary Experts working on this research will be mobilized for this proposed side event, through a dialogue with American communities taking part to UNESCO healing initiative on overcoming the psychological trauma inherited from the history of enslavement.

Description In addition, the panel will include Afro-Brazilian women, to analyse their current challenges and valorize their contributions to the global anti-racism agenda. Together with private sector representatives and UN agencies, participants will discuss the repercussions of institutional racism on health, and the possibilities of setting up structural policy changes.

Do these things breed poverty and violence?

Personal responsibility, housing history, redlining in black neighborhoods, white flight, lack of funding in education in black communities, highway system, lack of employment opportunities for teens, lack of fathers, all the above?

No one gets black men killed of locked up more than black females.

Black females protest and complain about the police shooting black men then call the same police on black men...