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Detroit was once home to 18 Black‑led hospitals. Learn about their rise and fall.

Detroit was once home to 18 Black‑led hospitals. Learn about their rise and fall.
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This story was first published in The Conversation Few institutions better illustrate the effects of the Great Migration on Black life in Detroit than Dunbar Memorial Hospital. Founded in 1918, Dunbar was both a medical institution and a radical expression of racial uplift and Black health advoca...

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