<p>95% of doctors who died during COVID-19 were Black and racially minoritised.&nbsp;And at the height of the pandemic, while making up only 14% of the population, Black and minoritised communities accounted for 63% of all healthcare worker deaths.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Why was the risk so unevenly distributed? It’s time to stop sitting with the numbers and shift the stakes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In this Feedwarmer edition,&nbsp;Tamanda and Aiwan&nbsp;revisit a 2021 conversation to dismantle the deep-seated racial disparities in UK healthcare. Featuring&nbsp;<strong>Rianna Raymond-Williams (Ree Speaks)</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Michael Hamilton (The Ubele Initiative)</strong>, we explore how youth-led organising like the "We Need Answers" campaign forced accountability onto the national agenda.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>From public health activism to the deeper architecture of systems change, we ask:&nbsp;<em>Who is protected? Who is exposed? And what must happen now?</em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>🎙️<strong> In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>The 95% Reality:</strong> What COVID-19 revealed about racial inequality in the UK</li><li><strong>The Frontline Cover Up:</strong>&nbsp;Why black and racially minorised doctors were sent to the frontline over their white colleagues and what this reveals about a lack of institutional safety</li><li><strong>We Need Answers:</strong> The power of youth-led organising and how it put accountability onto the agenda</li><li><strong>Unhealthy Structural Racism:</strong> What could happen when data confirms what communities already know?</li><li><strong>Moving up the “Funding Food Chain”:</strong>&nbsp;Why black organisations must shift from "firefighting" on small, unpredictable grants to controlling large-scale institutional capital</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts
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