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Black women’s health is worth investing in
Black women leaders and creatives can help to build healthy black women’s futures, writes Dr L TONI LEWIS

FOR many black women in the United States, 2024 started with a series of very public displays demonstrating the various challenges that are faced in society.  

For many of us, the aggressive path leading to the resignation of Dr Claudine Gay; the attempted public humbling of district-attorney Fani Willis; the workplace environment contributing to the death by suicide of Dr Antoinette Candia-Bailey; and the sudden deaths of Dr Edith Mitchell and Dr Debbie Ann Turner sent a collective chill through our bodies and souls.

These very public events also sent this chill not only because of the specific events, but also because of how familiar these trajectories felt in our own lives.  

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