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Shawn Kang
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Special Report: Reporting Black America
Young adult Black immigrants forge new lives and battle racial inequalities
More than a quarter of Black immigrants have college degrees and 74 percent of them are fluent in English, 24 percent higher than all immigrants.
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Special Report: Reporting Black America
Healthcare disparities hurts African immigrants
Other key challenges of African immigrants’ access to the health care system range from a language barrier, inundation with excessive information and paperwork and hostile services experience, according to PubMed.