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This brief examines how past policies and events are linked to present-day disparities among Black people in health and health care.

Ann DeFabio, senior vice president and chief communications officer, leads all external communications at KFF in support of the organization’s mission to provide trusted information on national health issues.Before joining KFF in 2022, DeFabio was the senior vice president and chief communications officer at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she…

A new KFF analysis of provisional 2022 data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that the recent increases in firearm death rates among children and adolescents ages 17 and under were driven largely by gun assaults, which accounted for 66% of firearm deaths among young people in 2022, up…

Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936. She graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956 and from Boston University Law School in 1959, and then returned to Houston to open her own law practice. After participating in the Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign of 1960, she decided…

This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other…

This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to…

This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials…

This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other…

Chris Lee is a senior communications officer at KFF, where he has worked since 2008. He previously was a staff writer at The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. Lee earned a Master in Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.      

Samantha Artiga is vice president and director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program, which focuses on how racism and discrimination and social and economic inequities affect health. The program provides timely and reliable data, information and policy analysis on health and health care disparities affecting people of color,…