The New York Times: The Black Mortality Gap

“Black Americans die at higher rates than white Americans at nearly every age.

In 2019, the most recent year with available mortality data, there were about 62,000 such earlier deaths — or one out of every five African American deaths.

The age group most affected by the inequality was infants. Black babies were more than twice as likely as white babies to die before their first birthday.”

For a deeper dive into the gap in Black Mortality, check out the full article from the New York Times.