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Kamala Harris has elevated the Blindian community


Kamala Harris has elevated the Blindian community: ‘It’s a validation of the identity I’ve had to fight for’
With a Black father and an Indian mother, Harris is part of a group that has struggled for acceptance.
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Caroline Kitchener
Jan. 12, 2021
Sharda Sekaran was raised by a single Black mom. She went to mostly Black schools as a child, in mostly Black neighborhoods. Looking at her, she says, some people assume she’s Black.
But her name Sharda always gave her away.
All her life, Sekaran has searched for other “Blindians” people with one Black and one Indian parent. The closest she came was the couple in “Mississippi Masala,” she says, a 1991 movie about a Black man and an Indian woman who fall in love. ....

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For the poor and disenfranchised, higher hurdles to transplants


This article originally appeared on Undark.
David White was first evaluated for a kidney transplant in 2011, but it would be four years before he got the call that his turn had come. In between undergoing various forms of dialysis to do the job his kidneys couldn t and attending medical appointments to ensure he was healthy enough to survive the four-to-six-hour surgery, White busied himself with reading, exercise, and even trying to learn a new language to keep his mind off the fact that his kidneys were failing.
During his initial evaluations, the then 49-year-old consulted with social workers and completed a test to measure his heart function. Although White s high blood pressure and kidney failure had taken a toll on his health, he says he sailed through the physical health checks with ease. ....

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