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Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world


by Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press
Posted May 13, 2021 12:27 pm ADT
Last Updated May 13, 2021 at 12:39 pm ADT
The inseparable sisters always stood out identical twins from Twinsburg Ohio, whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks, excluded from the gifted track because they were Black.
Their friends were white and a classmate’s comment still stings: “’I don’t even think of you as Black.’ I said, ‘’Thank you.’ And I felt pride,” Brittani James recalls, shuddering.
“I believed we were special. I believed other people in our neighborhood weren’t as good as us,’’ she said. ....

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Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world - Wilmington News Journal


Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world
By Lindsey Tanner - AP Medical Writer
Dr. Brittani James, left, and her twin sister Dr. Brandi Jackson stand for a portrait in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Sunday, May 2, 2021. The identical twin doctors who have fought bigotry all their lives have a lofty new mission: dismantling racism in medicine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
The inseparable sisters always stood out identical twins from Twinsburg Ohio, whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks, excluded from the gifted track because they were Black.
Their friends were white and a classmate’s comment still stings: “’I don’t even think of you as Black.’ I said, ‘’Thank you.’ And I felt pride,” Brittani James recalls, shuddering. ....

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