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Physician. NYT bestselling author of LEGACY 📚 TIME100 Health ✨ Thinking about health, culture, & the life I choose.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialIndigenous communities deserve not only access to quality healthcare, but the power to shape the systems and decisions that affect their health and well-being. 🤎
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialHealth equity also means recognizing the lasting impacts of colonization, displacement, and systemic inequities on Indigenous health, while respecting Tribal sovereignty and supporting community-led solutions.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialOn Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the histories, cultures, resilience, and ongoing contributions of Indigenous peoples. Thread.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialReposted by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialHappening tonight in Brooklyn! 💙 Looking forward to this important conversation about community healthcare and the legacy of the Young Lords.
8 PM at the Brooklyn Public Library. Free and open to the public! Come join us.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialHappening tonight in Brooklyn! 💙 Looking forward to this important conversation about community healthcare and the legacy of the Young Lords.
8 PM at the Brooklyn Public Library. Free and open to the public! Come join us.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialWhen the world reopened after early days of the pandemic, I worried that people who knew me from TV and virtual talks might be disappointed when they met me in person. It’s interesting how even when you’ve accomplished so much, you can still wonder if you’re enough.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialYesterday, a young Black woman working security stopped me after my panel and said, “Ma’am, you really are Black girl magic.”
In a room full of leaders and policymakers, hers was the impression that meant the most.
She saw me. I saw her. 🤎
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialReposted by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialBoston, I’m coming your way! 🤎
On October 20, I’m joining W. Kamau Bell at EQTY 2026 for a conversation about trust, health, culture, and the systems that shape our lives.
Hope to see you there! ✨
Register here: www.bmc.org/eqty-2026
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialBoston, I’m coming your way! 🤎
On October 20, I’m joining W. Kamau Bell at EQTY 2026 for a conversation about trust, health, culture, and the systems that shape our lives.
Hope to see you there! ✨
Register here: www.bmc.org/eqty-2026
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialReposted by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialGot my flu and updated COVID vaccines this week. 💉❤️
Heading into respiratory virus season, just sharing one of the ways I’m taking care of myself.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialThis year, leading medical organizations, including AAFP, AAP, ACOG and IDSA, came together to issue evidence-based recommendations for COVID, flu and RSV vaccines based on an independent review of the latest science. Talk with your healthcare provider about what’s recommended for you.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialGot my flu and updated COVID vaccines this week. 💉❤️
Heading into respiratory virus season, just sharing one of the ways I’m taking care of myself.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialLooking forward to joining the Milken Institute’s Patient Advocacy Forum in DC next week for a conversation about trust in healthcare, patient advocacy, and why patients’ experiences and voices must be part of how we build better systems.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialReposted by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialI stopped playing the violin nearly 30 years ago.
This year, I picked it up again.
I thought I was returning to an instrument. Instead, I found myself returning to a part of me I hadn’t realized I’d left behind.
I wrote about it for Oprah Daily. ❤️🎻
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialI stopped playing the violin nearly 30 years ago.
This year, I picked it up again.
I thought I was returning to an instrument. Instead, I found myself returning to a part of me I hadn’t realized I’d left behind.
I wrote about it for Oprah Daily. ❤️🎻
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialReposted by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialI’ve been following the conversation sparked by Nikole Hannah-Jones’s recent essay about her daughter’s education, and I’ve been sitting with it a little before deciding whether I wanted to say anything. Thread.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialI’ll be sitting with this one for a while.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialFor me, that means holding these stories with care while asking what our educational systems are doing for all of our children, especially Black children, and what it’ll take to ensure that every child has the opportunity to learn, belong, and thrive.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialWe can examine individual choices while recognizing that no individual family created these conditions, and no individual family can solve them. We can’t individualize a systemic problem.
@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.socialAcademic rigor and racial belonging should never be competing priorities, a child’s opportunities should never depend on how much time, money, knowledge, or access their family has, and our concern cannot end once our own children are OK.
