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<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><u class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">TODAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2021 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM | E51-095</span></u></b><br class="">
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<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">ANNE POLLOCK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;">Professor
of Global Health and Social Medicine</span><br class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">King’s College, London</span><br class="">
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<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">SICKENING: ANTI-BLACK RACISM AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES</span></b><br class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americansin the twenty-first century. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack
of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis, Sickening surveys the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. It deconstructs the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and
the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies, revealing the everyday racialization of health in the U.S.</span><br class="">
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<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">EVENT PAGE: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;"><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/book-talk-with-anne-pollock-ph-d-07-sickening-anti-black-racism-and-health-disparities-in-the-united-states/" style="color: blue;" class="">https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/book-talk-with-anne-pollock-ph-d-07-sickening-anti-black-racism-and-health-disparities-in-the-united-states/</a></span><br class="">
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<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">Open to the Public with Limited Seating.</span></b><br class="">
<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">Please email <a href="mailto:gusz@mit.edu" style="color: blue;" class="">gusz@mit.edu</a> to RSVP.</span></b><br class="">
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<b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class="">Tim Ticket Registration:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class=""> <a href="https://tim-tickets.atlas-apps.mit.edu/Qhm8LxEraALzQ2gBA" class="">https://tim-tickets.atlas-apps.mit.edu/Qhm8LxEraALzQ2gBA</a></span></span></div>
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