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Racial bias in health care hurts patients. But that can change.

Menda Stewart had studied symptoms like her daughter had in nursing school. So she took McKenzie to the pediatrician’s office and asked that she be tested for type 1 diabetes. “She doesn’t need that,” the nurse said confidently.

Menda Stewart, left, a nurse and mother of McKenzie Stewart, 6, right, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 4, checks McKenzie’s blood sugar levels before allowing her to begin her first of three dance classes at the Eleone Dance Unlimited studios.
Menda Stewart, left, a nurse and mother of McKenzie Stewart, 6, right, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 4, checks McKenzie’s blood sugar levels before allowing her to begin her first of three dance classes at the Eleone Dance Unlimited studios.Read moreMICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer