Dr. Uché Blackstock

M.D., founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity

Uché Blackstock, M.D., is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, best-selling author of “LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” and a former MSNBC and NBC News medical contributor.


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Dr. Uché Blackstock

2d ago
MS NOW Opinion

Democrats need to start thinking beyond Obamacare

As an emergency physician, I have cared for marginalized patients who came into public hospitals after delaying care because they had nowhere else to turn.

8mos ago
MS NOW Opinion

When Covid hit Black Americans hard, too many white Americans shrugged

The higher rates of infection and death weren’t the result of anything Black people had done to make ourselves sick; they were an example of how systemic racism plays out in our lives.