CNN staffer Sharon Browne-Peter was diagnosed with sickle cell disease before she was born and needs regular blood transfusions to stay healthy. Ethnically-matched blood offers the best treatment for people with sickle cell. However, there aren’t enough Black blood donors in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The problem of staff brutality towards patients on the psych wards disproportionately affects people of color and continues to happen every day behind locked doors.
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society; Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. Author of Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, and Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland