KFF Well being Information journalist Cara Anthony has been masking racism and the methods it could possibly have an effect on individuals’s well being for years. The venture is about two killings of Black males that occurred many years aside in Sikeston, Mo.: a lynching in1942 and a police capturing in 2020.
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KFF Well being Information journalist Cara Anthony has been masking racism and the methods it could possibly have an effect on individuals’s well being for years. The venture is about two killings of Black males that occurred many years aside in Sikeston, Mo.: a lynching in1942 and a police capturing 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, wished to reply. And he or she wished to reply it not simply on a person scale, however on a community-wide one – to look at the medical affect of trauma that strikes by means of households and throughout generations, and the way to 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 difficulty: Sikeston, Mo.
As we speak on the present, Cara walks host Emily Kwong by means of Sikeston’s historical past — and what locals and medical consultants should 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 collection, 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 Cook dinner, Taunya English, and Zach Dyer.