OPINION: Weathering is rooted in a history of marginalization; repeated exposure to socioeconomic adversity, political marginalization, racism, and perpetual discrimination that harms our health ...

What is weathering? It describes how Black people experience early health deterioration due to stress caused by systemic racism. Learn more and how to heal. Arline Geronimus, ScD, is a professor of ...

Racism kills; and that is made abundantly clear with every Black life lost to police misconduct, environmental hazard, or stress-induced illness. But the slow crumbling of our health due to systemic ...