KFF Well being Information journalist Cara Anthony has been overlaying racism and the methods it may well have an effect on folks’s well being for years. The undertaking is about two killings of Black males that occurred many years aside in Sikeston, Mo.: a lynching in1942 and a police taking pictures in 2020.
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KFF Well being Information journalist Cara Anthony has been overlaying racism and the methods it may well have an effect on folks’s well being for years. The undertaking is about two killings of Black males that occurred many years aside in Sikeston, Mo.: a lynching in1942 and a police taking pictures in 2020.
Michael B. Thomas for KFF Well being Information
Racism is usually lined as a political, cultural or information story. However how is it affecting our well being?
That is the query that Cara Anthony, KFF Information reporter, needed to reply. And she or he needed to reply it not simply on a person scale, however on a community-wide one – to look at the medical influence of trauma that strikes via households and throughout generations, and how one can deal with it. So for the previous few years, she’s been reporting on a small city within the Midwest that illustrates that well being problem: Sikeston, Mo.
At present on the present, Cara walks host Emily Kwong via Sikeston’s historical past — and what locals and medical consultants need to say about how that historical past continues to form the current. Plus, what is the remedy for generational trauma?
For extra of Cara’s reporting, you may take a look at KFF Well being Information’ documentary and four-part podcast sequence, Silence in Sikeston.
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This episode was produced by Hannah Chinn and edited by our showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez. Cara, Hannah, and Tyler Jones checked the information. Patrick Murray was the audio engineer.
Due to the KFF Well being Information crew behind Silence in Sikeston, together with however not restricted to Cara Anthony, Simone Popperl, Taylor Prepare dinner, Taunya English, and Zach Dyer.