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Priska Neely
@priskaneely
Black woman in America | Managing Editor, Gulf States Newsroom | PMJA President | ‘22 Editor of the Year | Past: @reveal @KPCC @NPR | 🪴 mom | 📧priska@wbhm.org
Jun 28, 2018 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Black babies in the US are twice as likely to die before their first birthday as white babies.

Since I learned this ugly statistic, and realized it touched my own family, I’ve been wondering:

How has this been true for so long? How do we fix it?

Here's what I found 👇 While I was researching & reporting, this document from 1984 became my best friend.

I could not believe that there were such similar conversations taking place at the federal level more than 30 years ago. (Shoutout to central @LAPublicLibrary where I first found it!)