F. Mitchell
fmitchell.bsky.social
F. Mitchell
@fmitchell.bsky.social
I write about social and health policy and Black history and culture. I'm a fellow at the Urban Institute. Opinions are my own.
@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social just published this report. Sadly, I wasn't surprised that Black Kansans had the highest risk of death for several diseases. But the lack of racially disaggregated data was dismaying. There was a lot we couldn't find out. www.urban.org/research/pub...
Black Kansans in Review: Health
Although data serve as an important tool for monitoring health and health inequities, Kansas’s data landscape for Black health is fragmented across several different sources, which prevents compiling ...
www.urban.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Adam Mahoney has done a beautiful job here of combining insights related to race, the environment, and the insurance industry.

Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires capitalbnews.org/california-w...
Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires
As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives.
capitalbnews.org
January 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM