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“America in Black” will feature a heart-wrenching investigative piece on unnecessary amputations with correspondent Wesley Lowery. Black Americans are up to three times more likely to have their limbs surgically removed than the national average. And research shows many of those amputations were preventable. One Mississippi doctor, Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi founder Dr. Foluso Fakorede, is making it his mission to educate patients and is challenging Congress to act. While Dr. Fakorede fights the epidemic, patients and their families are forced to readjust to their new lives as amputees as they stare down the barrel of mortality statistics following amputations. This piece is a collaboration with ProPublica, who initially reported the story.

Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and on-air correspondent. He currently works as a contributing editor at The Marshall Project and a Journalist in Residence at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. In nearly a decade as a national correspondent, Lowery has specialized in issues of race, justice and law enforcement. He led the Washington Post team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 for the creation and analysis of a real-time database to track fatal police shootings in the United States. His project, “Murder with Impunity,” an unprecedented look at unsolved homicides in major American cities, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. His first book, They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement, was a New York Times bestseller and awarded the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose by the LA Times Book Prizes.