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F. Mitchell

@fmitchell.bsky.social

I write about social and health policy and Black history and culture. I'm a fellow at the Urban Institute. Opinions are my own.

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I deeply appreciate the clarity of your vision!

22.02.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been thinking about this, and was hoping @adamserwer.bsky.social would write about it. He sees through the noise to the central issues.

22.02.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Black Kansans in Review: Health Although data serve as an important tool for monitoring health and health inequities, Kansas’s data landscape for Black health is fragmented across several different sources, which prevents compiling ...

@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social just published this report. Sadly, I wasn't surprised that Black Kansans had the highest risk of death for several diseases. But the lack of racially disaggregated data was dismaying. There was a lot we couldn't find out. www.urban.org/research/pub...

31.01.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives.

Adam Mahoney has done a beautiful job here of combining insights related to race, the environment, and the insurance industry.

Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires capitalbnews.org/california-w...

17.01.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suddenly R's believe in the social determinants of health, and by social determinants they mean "it's your fault and your problem."

12.01.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why It Matters: Because we're all getting dumber by the hour here.

Nailed it!

20.12.2024 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great piece! Thanks for writing it. The lack of racial data for European countries hampers cross-national research as well as progress within their own countries.

13.12.2024 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We pay the most among our peer countries and have the least to show for it.

10.12.2024 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to be added. Thanks, Faith

14.11.2024 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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