Racism

How the COVID-19 pandemic illustrated racial disparities in health care

When Thomas Fisher, MD’01, started work on what would become The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER (One World, 2022), the COVID-19 pandemic was still months away.

What Americans are thinking a year after George Floyd’s death

AP-NORC poll: Strong support for police reform, but less confidence in positive change

Remembering UChicago alum Earl Dickerson’s trailblazing legacy

Dickerson, JD’1920, helped shape fight for economic and racial justice, in court and beyond

Why racism is a public health crisis

Experts discuss U.S. health disparities for Black women on UChicago Urban panel

Why a 19th-century bank failure still matters

Chicago Booth study links Black distrust of financial institutions to Freedman’s Bank collapse

How the way we talk both unites and divides us

In new book, Prof. Katherine D. Kinzler argues that how you speak reflects who you are