{"id":1810,"date":"2024-09-08T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:29:59","slug":"understanding-addressing-the-black-doctor-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/understanding-addressing-the-black-doctor-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding &#038; Addressing the Black Doctor Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong\u00a0 evidence shows that America badly needs more Black doctors, but the Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 ban on affirmative action in higher education is resulting in medical schools training fewer Black persons to become doctors.\u00a0 To help rectify that, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has pledged to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mike-bloomberg-hbcu-medical-schools-morehouse-meharry-howard-charles-drew-d997c100e4161dffd03e282d8df31c70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mike-bloomberg-hbcu-medical-schools-morehouse-meharry-howard-charles-drew-d997c100e4161dffd03e282d8df31c70&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1723921086146000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Na1Wtxml0S5fvK4gQwgF9\">donate $600 million<\/a>\u00a0to four historically Black medical schools, stipulating that the money must be used as scholarships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shortage of Black doctors is rooted in racist history \u2212 a $600M gift will help historically Black medical schools address the gap<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/shortage-of-black-doctors-is-rooted-in-racist-history-a-600m-gift-will-help-historically-black-medical-schools-address-the-gap-236288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/shortage-of-black-doctors-is-rooted-in-racist-history-a-600m-gift-will-help-historically-black-medical-schools-address-the-gap-236288<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798378454761\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong\u00a0 evidence shows that America badly needs more Black doctors, but the Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 ban on affirmative action in higher education is resulting in medical schools training fewer Black persons to become doctors.\u00a0 To help rectify that, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has pledged to\u00a0donate $600 million\u00a0to four historically Black medical schools,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/understanding-addressing-the-black-doctor-shortage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Understanding &#038; Addressing the Black Doctor Shortage&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,65,53,41,40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-global","category-news","category-politics","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}