Ajamu K. Sankofa, Esq

The historic and newly reenergized movement for an improved and expanded Medicare for all residents in the United States and its Territories and the current volcanic eruption for full human rights for people who enter the United States without permission, seeking work, have crossed paths at a fault line called white supremacy and institutional racism.…

Can you imagine what life would be like today for old and/or impoverished Black folks, if they did not have both Medicare and Medicaid? Think about it. Over the past twenty-seven years, Black communities have been devastated by the triple public health assaults of AIDS, drugs, and violence, all orchestrated within the context of a…

Every year since 1994, the year in which the Clinton Administration failed to reform the health system in the United States (leaving in place the private health insurance industry dominating the healthcare-delivery system), actual healthcare coverage for people in the United States has continued to shrink. Real costs for private health insurance companies and their…

“I never worked for an organization but for a cause.” Ella Baker (1968) The people residing in the United States, across all demographic classifications, are arousing from a deep sleep. The ever increasing costs of health care premiums, co-pays, and prescription drugs, the ever-diminishing quality of health insurance coverage, the growing numbers of the uninsured…

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King recognized that institutional racism is endemic in the national health care system of the United States and that it is the most egregious form of racial discrimination in the land. This shocking and…