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The B.L.A.C. Project is honored to release the first video in a short series with our partners titled today. This video series explores the roots of medical distrust in Black and brown communities through the lens of personal stories. The series highlights the voices of three people– two patients who identify as persons of color and one health provider who identifies as white– as the entry point into a broader discussion about the profound impact of distrust in the medical system among BIPOC communities and what health care providers can do to address it.

In this first video, Rochelle speaks about her experience as a Black woman in the healthcare system and the impact that it’s had on her fertility journey. Rochelle explores how mutual trust is needed between patients and physicians and how medical mistrust is rooted in historic and present trauma as a result of bias and systemic racism.

These videos are part of an ongoing project, “More Than a Vaccine: Storytelling to Build Medical Trust,” funded by Boston University and led collaboratively by Everyday Boston, Boston Medical Center’s Department of Family Medicine, The B.L.A.C. Project, Transformational Prison Project, We Got Us, EmVision Productions, and NIH’s Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL).