Slavery Linked to Current U.S. Racial Gaps in Health and Mortality

Source: Science In 1953, civil rights activist James Baldwin wrote that "people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"&mdash;an observation that would ring all too familiar to researchers studying racial health disparities in the U.S. today. A study published by the National Academies of Science, suggests that slavery may still cast a long shadow on the country's well-being,…