As late as 1940, about 10,000 black infants died each year.

The mortality rate for black infants was more than twice as high, 17.9, dropping only one-tenth of a point.

Between 1980 and 1990, white infants, on average, were 13 percent more likely than black infants to be circumcised.

Now, circumcision rates for black and white infants are about the same.

She agreed to give the black infant to its biological parents.

For example, black infants die at twice the rate of white infants.

Thus a black female infant may have a two-week advantage over a white male.

In 1989, 30 percent of the black infants who died were the children of teen-age mothers.

And in 1986 black infants were more than twice as likely to die before the age of one.

The disparity between white and black infants has remained the same for decades.