Dr. Yolanda Lawson

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces $600 Million Gift to Historically Black Medical Schools

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentAugust 12, 2024

In a monumental move to address the underrepresentation of Black physicians in the United States, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $600 million donation to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools.

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COVID-19 was ‘Bloody Sunday’ for America’s Racial Health Disparities; Yet, There is Little Progress

Hazel Trice Edney, TriceEdneyWire.com  October 12, 2023

Black doctors on the front lines against racism in medicine across the U. S. had hoped that the revelation of racially disparate suffering and death amidst the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID 19) would become the “Bloody Sunday” for revealing the truth about health disparities in America and escalate the long struggle to end them. But that has apparently not happened. 