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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Aug 24

Honored to join March On! for a virtual conversation on race, health & justice.

📅 Mon, Sept 15 | 7:30 PM ET
🎤 With Dr. Aletha Maybank, Dr, Joel Bervell & me

🌐 marchonfest.org/festival

#MarchOnFest #HealthJustice #CivilRights #StoriesThatMove

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jul 9

Most of the physician lawmakers who voted for this devastating tax bill? White. Male. Meanwhile, millions stand to lose healthcare. We need more diverse voices in medicine and policymaking.

Source: @medpagetoday.bsky.social

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jul 6

Hey cutie!

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jul 6

I have lived in my neighborhood for two decades and, not since my partner and I got our pup 8 months ago have I met so many neighbors (and their pups) - many with super interesting stories and lives.

This little 8 lb. doggo has brought lots of goodness into our lives.

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Dr Martha Gulati @drmarthagulati.bsky.social · Jun 23

@aspeninstitute.bsky.social opening sessions with the big ideas to change health with @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social discussing burnout which should be measured & addressed by health systems

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thank you for sharing

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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · Jun 27

"We must fight to fund health care systems that focus on the needs of underrepresented communities, directly addressing racial health inequities." @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social‬ via ‪@thehill.com‬

I’m a Black mother and a physician with a message about Black kids’ future

I’m a Black mother and a physician with a message about Black kids’ future

As a mother, physician and health equity advocate, I have seen how our health care system affects Black children.

thehill.com

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you sweets !

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jun 19

On this Juneteenth, I'm so happy to share my twin sister’s, Uché Blackstock, MD, powerful op-ed on Black children’s futures.

As a Black mother and physician, she names the urgent need to protect and nurture our children especially in these challenging times.

thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 18

The day before Juneteenth, I’m thinking about freedom—and our children’s futures.

“What we do today matters….”

In @thehill.com , I write about raising Black boys in a country that still puts them at risk—in hospitals, schools, and policy.

✊🏾 Read: thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 15

Last year, LEGACY was named an Amazon Best Science Book of 2024 So Far.

Today, amid pushback and retrenchment, the work it stands for is more urgent than ever.

Legacy matters now more than ever.

www.amazon.com/Legacy-Physi...

#HealthEquity #LegacyBook #StillWeRise

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 13

Truly moved by this piece from BlackDoctor.org on LEGACY. The memoir was written in remembrance—of my mother, my journey, and a profession still in need of healing.

The work continues through my firm Advancing Health Equity.

blackdoctor.org/what-my-moth...

What My Mother’s Journey Through Medicine Taught Me About Injustice

Dr. Uché Blackstock pays tribute to her late mother, Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock and discusses what her journey taught her about injustice.

blackdoctor.org

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Jun 9

NIH walks back ban on DEI -- but officials there are not answering questions from @aniloza.bsky.social so unclear what this means for new/existing/pending/terminated grants, or why policy was suddenly rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

NIH walks back ban on new grants for universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts

The NIH has rescinded a policy requiring recipients of new grants to certify they do not have unlawful DEI programs or boycotts of Israel.

www.statnews.com

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 9

More on our 2-4 week Quick Impact Equity Audit.

advancinghealthequity.com/continuing-t...

Continuing the Work in a New Landscape - Advancing Health Equity

Our Quick-Impact Equity Audits build organizational resilience through Clarity, Alignment, and Confidence. As federal mandates evolve and public scrutiny intensifies, equity-related practices are incr...

advancinghealthequity.com

Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 9

More on our Leadership Advisory and Coaching offering:

advancinghealthequity.com/behind-the-s...

Meeting the Moment: Discreet Executive Support - Advancing Health Equity

Meeting the Moment: helping healthcare executives navigate equity-related challenges with discretion, clarity, and confidence. As public discourse grows more polarized and scrutiny of diversity and eq...

advancinghealthequity.com

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thrilled to share that my firm Advancing Health Equity has new offerings to meet the moment.

✅ Leadership Coaching & Advisory offers discreet support to help leaders move forward w/ clarity and confidence.

✅ Quick-Impact Equity Audits help orgs cut thru uncertainty & move forward with alignment.

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 7

The removal of the words diversity, inclusion, and equity is not neutral.

It is part of a broader, politically motivated rollback of racial justice efforts in academic medicine—and it sends a chilling message to those of us who have fought to be seen, supported, and safe.

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 7

📣 As part of two generations of Black women Harvard Medical School graduates—our late mother, my twin sister Oni and me - we are deeply disappointed by HMS’s recent decision to dismantle key diversity infrastructure under the guise of “community” and “culture.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

HMS Restructures and Renames Diversity Office, Removes Pledge To Fight Inequities | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Medical School renamed its diversity office and announced changes to several major DEI programs on Wednesday in the latest rollback of diversity infrastructure at Harvard.

www.thecrimson.com

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Jun 7

Poverty is a policy choice.

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line

The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

www.theguardian.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 6

Same. We were in fact FORBIDDEN from staying in the house especially during the summer. We spent all day out in the neighborhood playing, going to everyone's house, etc...

Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · Jun 6

Bruh I'd leave the house in the morning and show back up when the lights came on. No lunch. Just outside outside. I was 8.

Two tweets. First one from Thrilla the Gorilla v
@ThrillaRilla369
Did parents in the 70s/80s/90s really allow their kids to roam freely, or is that just a portrayal seen in movies
Response from
katie @katefeetie
an underreported reason people are having fewer and fewer kids: now we're expected to watch them 24/7. at least in the summer my mom got 10+ hours a day free from me while I crawled around in ditches

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jun 6

Disappointing to see Harvard Med School go even farther than Harvard College in capitulating to the administration by erasing their statement in support of health equity, renaming one of their diversity offices, and absorbing another into the Office of Student Affairs. Shameful.

HMS Restructures and Renames Diversity Office, Removes Pledge To Fight Inequities | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Medical School renamed its diversity office and announced changes to several major DEI programs on Wednesday in the latest rollback of diversity infrastructure at Harvard.

www.thecrimson.com

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · Jun 4

I remember a month ago my 83 year father saying: "They're targeting everything you do or have done - public health, clinical research, HIV, LGTBQ+ health, health care for people w/ Medicaid, etc."

I told him that means he raised me “right”.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · May 29

Wonderful to see Maryland repeal it's antiquated HIV criminalization law.

HIV crim laws stigmatize HIV and are a form anti-Black structural homophobia.

"Men made up 86% of those prosecuted under the law, while Black people comprised 82% of those prosecuted..."

Maryland Ends HIV Criminalization in LGBTQ Rights Win

Governor Wes Moore signs the Carlton R. Smith Act, making Maryland the fifth state to decriminalize HIV and advance LGBTQ health equity.

www.metroweekly.com

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · May 28

Proud to be the keynote speaker at the Congressional Black Caucus Health Equity Summit last week as a second-gen Black physician.

Chronic disease in our communities isn’t accidental—it’s systemic.

We need care that prevents, not just treats. And change that begins where people live.

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · May 27

Surrounded by his white peers, Ferdinand Augustus Stewart is pictured in the third row (center) of the Harvard Medical Class of 1888. (Photo courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)

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