Over recent years, hip-hop legends like MF DOOM, Prodigy, and Baba Zumbi have all died in hospitals under controversial circumstances. Speaking to their loved ones as well as experts, writer Thomas Hobbs explores how a lack of training around Black illnesses may have contributed.
Preach. I remember watching some documentary about the maternal mortality rates and it’s literally down to doctors and nurses just not giving black women the same care and attention as white women and this isn’t just in America or the UK, it’s worldwide.
And it saddens me that as time goes on, the record labels only promote money and sex rap, so there’s no avenue for young children to learn via music that they need to know stuff like this.
I think like anything, it is up to the parents to educate their children. I don’t blame the record labels because they promote what makes them the most money and I expect nothing better from them. The best we can do is make sure that the children in our lives know, so that if one day they end up in a position to help make a change, they can. And of course, to share articles like you did, so people who may not have anybody in their life to tell them about this stuff can learn.
Preach. I remember watching some documentary about the maternal mortality rates and it’s literally down to doctors and nurses just not giving black women the same care and attention as white women and this isn’t just in America or the UK, it’s worldwide.
And it saddens me that as time goes on, the record labels only promote money and sex rap, so there’s no avenue for young children to learn via music that they need to know stuff like this.
I think like anything, it is up to the parents to educate their children. I don’t blame the record labels because they promote what makes them the most money and I expect nothing better from them. The best we can do is make sure that the children in our lives know, so that if one day they end up in a position to help make a change, they can. And of course, to share articles like you did, so people who may not have anybody in their life to tell them about this stuff can learn.