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Death creates ripples of grief throughout communities. Research has found that every death leaves an average of nine people in mourning.

New research casts the United States' racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher death rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades. The early deaths of Black Americans are fueled by higher rates of heart disease, cancer and infant mortality.

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people. Now a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding...

Because so many Black people die young — with many years of life ahead of them — their higher mortality rate from 1999 to 2020 resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life compared with the white population, the study showed.

The profound and painful loss — 80 million years of life, compared with the white population — is a call to action to improve the health of Black Americans, especially

The profound and painful loss — 80 million years of life, compared with the white population — is a call to action to improve the health of Black Americans, especially infants, mothers, and seniors, researchers say.

The higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades, a study finds.

Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.