Join WTTW, NOVA and The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center on Wednesday, June 18 at 6:00 pm for a screening of selected clips and discussion of the new documentary Critical Condition: Health in Black America.

In Critical Condition: Health in Black America, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson investigates the dramatic health disparities in the U.S., even as scientists confirm that there are no meaningful genetic differences between races. From the deep history of pseudoscientific beliefs about race that still permeate modern medicine to the latest research on how experiencing discrimination can directly damage the body’s DNA and biology, Critical Condition reveals the factors behind the health crisis facing Black Americans.

This event is free, but RSVP is required.

Major funding for Critical Condition: Health in Black America is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The California Endowment. Additional funding is provided by the George D. Smith Fund, Inc., the PDB Foundation, and the Wilemal Fund.

Major funding for NOVA and this programming is provided by Carlisle Companies, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the NOVA Science Trust with support from Margaret and Will Hearst and the Hoveida Family Foundation, and PBS viewers.