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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 &nbsp;| &nbsp;4:00PM - 5:30PM &nbsp;| &nbsp;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">&nbsp;</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&nbsp;lack
 of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis, Sickening surveys the diversity&nbsp;of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. It deconstructs the structures that make these&nbsp;events&nbsp;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:&nbsp;</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&nbsp;<a href="mailto:gusz@mit.edu" style="color: blue;" class="">gusz@mit.edu</a>&nbsp;to RSVP.</span></b><br class="">
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