According to the CDC here (See table 2 page 9), at 31 weeks or less gestation black infant mortality is lower than for whites so it might be hard to change. The difference in infant mortality between Blacks and whites looks like it is not due to systemic racism in the healthcare system but due to accidents and practices in the home see links below.
Look at table 103 at ages of 90 and up. Black Americans 90 year and older have greater life expectancy than white Americans of the same age, so it looks like the difference in Black white life expectancy is mostly due to accidents and homicides and not due to systemic racism in the healthcare system or due to differences in overall health.
And of course there is skin cancer.
Links:
Record set for the earliest premature baby he is a black American baby born in Alabama
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