"Tragic Reality: The Ongoing Crisis of Black Infant Mortality in America"

A comprehensive study analyzing U.S. mortality statistics spanning 70 years highlights a persistent and alarming trend: Black children experience significantly elevated mortality rates compared to their white counterparts, with no progress in closing this gap since the 1950s. Published on March 25 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the research, conducted by esteemed institutions like Harvard and Yale, uncovers over half a million preventable infant deaths and nearly 690,000 childhood fatalities among Black Americans from 1950 to 2019. In the 1950s, Black infant mortality stood at 5,181 per 100,000, markedly higher than 2,703 per 100,000 for white infants.