How I Became Radicalized

Brittani James, MD
7 min readNov 7, 2020

Originally written April 8, 2020
One month into the U.S COVID-19 pandemic

I’m the type of Black person white people feel at ease around.

I am Ivy-league educated. I went to one of the top medical schools in the country. I am one of only 2% of black female physicians in the US.

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Brittani James, MD

Co-Founder, The Institute for Antiracism in Medicine. Assistant Professor, The University of Illinois. Family Medicine Physician on Chicago’s South Side.