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Morgan State University will make history as the first HBCU to open a medical school in 45 years.

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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $12 million to a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating medical school expenses for BIPOC students.

The skill set of being a successful college athlete is very similar to mental makeup you need to be a successful doctor, which makes it a perfect path for the many black student athletes who don't go pro.

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Morehouse School of Medicine and CommonSpirit Health are on a mission to increase the representation of Black doctors.

Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, was the first person in New York State to receive the shot, during a livestream shared by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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A group of Black Philadelphia-based doctors is on a mission to ensure that communities of color have access to adequate COVID-19 testing.

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Patrice A. Harris has officially become the American Medical Association’s first Black woman president.

O’Neal’s medical school classmates remember her as an “advocate” for young Black doctors.

A Delta Airlines flight attendant doubted that a Black female is a doctor when another passenger becomes unresponsive during a flight. She shares the humiliating incident on Facebook.

Xavier University of Louisiana, located in a western neighborhood of New Orleans, produces the highest number of Black medical students in the nation, the New York Times reports. After becoming Loyola University’s first African-American law student in 1952, former President Norman Francis, took his skills and journeyed to Xavier University in efforts to raise the amount of […]