Speaking up. After Angelina Jolie‘s daughter, Zahara, couldn’t receive the surgical care she needed because of her skin color, her mom called out the medical system’s lack of awareness around non-white patients.
In an interview with Time on Wednesday, June 23, Jolie talked to medical student Malone Mukwende about how, as a mom of several children of color, she’s aware of the medical system’s bias toward non-white patients. “I have children from different backgrounds, and I know when there was a rash that everybody got, it looked drastically different depending on their skin color,” Jolie said. “But whenever I looked at medical charts, the reference point was always white skin.” The Maleficent star went on to reveal how her eldest daughter,
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