Thread by @DrEricDing

Let these sink in—

📍Black women with college degrees are more likely to see their babies die as infants than a White woman without a high school degree.

📍Black alumni of @Yale in 1970 are >3x time more likely to die prematurely than White classmates.

2) Racial discrimination correlates with serious health problems, says Harvard professor David Williams. More here: cbsn.ws/32r6LSc

3) “there were 32 African Americans in the original class of 1970, almost exactly 3 percent of the total class. But nine of us had died, more than 10 percent of the total, which meant we were dying at more than three times the rate of our white alumni”
theroot.com/yale-grad-my-c…

4) Before their time

The 1960s saw the first significant presence of black men in Yale College. Forty years later, a disproportionate number have died. Did the racial barriers they faced all their lives play a part?

yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3193-…