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Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom and Progress While Recognizing Challenges in Health Equity | Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America

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Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom and Progress While Recognizing Challenges in Health Equity

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Juneteenth is the annual national celebration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. In 2021, it became a federal holiday. The holiday is a time for celebration. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the health equity challenges Black people in the U.S., and Black women in particular, continue to face. In the U.S., the burden of asthma and allergies falls disproportionately on Black, Hispanic, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations . Black people...

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Juneteenth is the annual national celebration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. In 2021, it became a federal holiday. The holiday is a time for celebration. It is also an opportunity to reflect on the health equity challenges Black people in the U.S., and Black women in particular, continue to face. In the U.S., the burden of asthma and allergies falls disproportionately on Black, Hispanic, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations . Black people...

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