'We’re Safe, But We’re Not Okay': A Black Doctor On Racism’s Role In The Eaton Fire And Black Health Crisis

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'We’re Safe, But We’re Not Okay': A Black Doctor On Racism’s Role In The Eaton Fire And Black Health Crisis

Updated February 14, 2025 In 1966, speaking to the press about a Medical Committee for Human Rights meeting in Chicago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. condemned the segregation of state-funded hospitals, declaring, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”King made this statement a full twelve years after the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board decision ruled segregated public schools unconstitution…