POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: HEALTH IN BLACK AND WHITE. This week, The New York Times ran a front-page story on a recent uptick in infant mortality in the South -- particularly among African Americans. The news offered a glimpse of the largely under-appreciated phenomenon of racial and socioeconomic disparities in health. Now, in a lengthy and illuminating interview, Madeline Drexler talks with one of the country's foremost experts on socioeconomic and racial health disparities, Harvard sociologist David Williams. Take a look.
--The Editors