California
Alua Arthur is a death doula, someone who helps people prepare for death, much as birth doulas help mothers prepare to give birth. She is Black, and the death of George Floyd hit hard for her and other Black death doulas, who saw in his death the antithesis of the “good death” they are trying to foster. She and five other women hosted a talk: “Sayin’ It Louder; A Conversation about a Good Death in a Racist Society.”
June 25, 2020
Science & Medicine
A new study says cancer death rates have steadily declined among Black people, but they remain higher than in other racial and ethnic groups.
May 19, 2022
World & Nation
Murder, AIDS and stroke are taking a much heavier toll on blacks than whites, a federal health agency reported Friday.
Nov. 29, 1992
Opinion
When Gov.
March 21, 2019
The report traces a line from historical lynchings to current executions, showing how Black inmates have been overrepresented on death row.
Sept. 15, 2020
Two South African black men were burned to death by fellow blacks in political violence and a former beauty queen was hacked to death in the black township of Soweto, authorities said.
Oct. 20, 1986
Britain’s national statistics agency reports that almost all ethnic minorities are at greater risk of death related to the coronavirus than whites.
May 7, 2020
California has among the lowest rates of death nationally among pregnant women and new mothers.
Sept. 27, 2021
If black infants born in the United States had all of the health and medical benefits enjoyed by white infants, nearly 4,000 fewer of them would die each year, new research suggests.
July 3, 2017
Entertainment & Arts
Movie Review: ‘Black Death’
March 11, 2011