META ANALYSIS Why Worst GENOCIDE Since 2019 BACK IN 1980 when Harlem was still a byword for poverty, criminality and the decline of New York City, Black men in America are living almost as long as white men - chasm in life-expectancy has nearly closed

Jun 15th 2019 | NEW YORK

BACK IN 1980 when Harlem was still a byword for poverty, criminality and the decline of New York City, black men in the neighbourhood had a worse chance of living to the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh did. At that time Harlem’s residents—almost all of them black, and many of them poor—died of heart disease at double the rate of whites. They died of liver cirrhosis, brought on by alcoholism or hepatitis, at ten times the rate of whites. And they were 14 times likelier to be murdered. Today the prominent corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and West 125th Street houses a Whole Foods, an upmarket grocery chain, and life expectancy is up to 76.2 years. That is still five years behind the rest of the city, but the gap is no longer so egregious.

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https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/15/black-men-in-america-are-living-almost-as-long-as-white-men