{"id":3375,"date":"2020-12-22T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/22\/black-men-have-the-shortest-lifespans-of-any-americans-this-theory-explains-why\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:28:39","slug":"black-men-have-the-shortest-lifespans-of-any-americans-this-theory-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/black-men-have-the-shortest-lifespans-of-any-americans-this-theory-explains-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Explains Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"FTOGwn6DSs4\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>The unrelenting stress of fighting systemic racism can alter a body\u2019s normal functioning until it starts to wear down. The theory, known as John Henryism, helps explain racial health disparities.  <\/p>\n<p>Read our investigation into why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men: <a href=\"http:\/\/propub.li\/38vzebY\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/propub.li\/38vzebY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\n&#8220;John Henry&#8221; performed by Josh White<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for ProPublica\u2019s weekly newsletter: <a href=\"http:\/\/propub.li\/2oyN8DY\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/propub.li\/2oyN8DY<\/a><br \/>\nFollow ProPublica on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/propub.li\/1fFfkwy\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/propub.li\/1fFfkwy<\/a><br \/>\nFollow ProPublica on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/propub.ca\/1EIvjjF\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/propub.ca\/1EIvjjF<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/22\/black-men-have-the-shortest-lifespans-of-any-americans-this-theory-explains-why\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unrelenting stress of fighting systemic racism can alter a body\u2019s normal functioning until it starts to wear down. The theory, known as John Henryism, helps explain racial\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}