The Black-White health gap is one of the most striking examples of the depths of racial inequality in the United States. Why does it persist? A new paper from Dr. William Darity (Sanford) and researchers at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center discuss how the transgenerational slavery trauma hypothesis, a theory that has been gaining prominence, fails to explain the Black-White health gap. The article was published in the current issue of Social Science & Medicine. Read more