Alternative ‘Lives Matter’ formulations in online discussions about Black Lives Matter: Use, support and resistance

Black Lives Do Matter.

I n this issue of Circulation, Mehta and colleagues 1 provide additional information on the state of cardiovascular care for the black population in the United States and, once again, the results remain mixed in our ability to optimize care for all. Their data remain consistent with findings from Bridges et al 2 in 2000 in identifying race as an adverse factor for mortality for coronary artery ...

When I say 'Black Lives Matter, ' why do some people hear 'Others Lives Matter Less'?

The statement ”Black lives matter” is commonly construed as implying other lives matter less, even though the statement does not explicitly reference other lives. Bias is a common explanation for this construal. However, other factors may contribute. We hypothesized that the linguistic structure of “Black lives matter” plays an important role. ”Black lives matter” takes the form of a generic, o...

Do black lives matter in public health research and training?

OBJECTIVE To examine whether investments made in public health research align with the health burdens experienced by white and black Americans. METHODS In this cross-sectional study of all deaths in the United States in 2015, we compared the distribution of potential years of life lost (PYLL) across 39 causes of death by race and identified key differences. We examined the relationship betwee...

Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter.

Why death haunts black lives.

In their article, Umberson et al. (1) demonstrate that African Americans are much more likely than whites to experience deaths in their immediate family circle, and that this elevated exposure to death occurs at virtually all stages of the life cycle. Differential exposure to bereavement by race is likely to contribute to long-standing black−white differentials with respect to health and socioe...