‘We’re Safe, But We’re Not Okay’: A Black Doctor On Racism’s Role In The Eaton Fire And Black Health Crisis

‘We’re Safe, But We’re Not Okay’: A Black Doctor On Racism’s Role In The Eaton Fire And Black Health Crisis

Essence Magazine:

Updated February 14, 2025

In 1966, speaking to the press about a Medical Committee for Human Rights meeting in Chicago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. condemned the segregation of state-funded hospitals, declaring, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”

King made this

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