the"prioritization of white skin" in medicine in a new op-ed as she advocates for people of color, including three of her children.
"As the mother of children of multiple races, I have seen my children of color be misdiagnosed, at times in ways that endangered their health," she wrote in the op-ed. "Reflecting personally, when my daughter Zahara, who is from Ethiopia, was hospitalized for a medical procedure, the nurse told me to call her ‘if she turns pink near her incisions,’" Jolie recalled."I stood looking blankly at her, not sure she understood what was wrong with what she had said."