Boston officials said Wednesday that the city will spend $1 million every year going forward to help close gaps in life expectancy among Black men and boys.
The announcement came as community leaders, public health experts and advocates gathered on the UMass Boston campus for the city’s first Black Men’s Health Activation Summit.
The summit comes nearly four months after the Boston Public Health Commission found that the average lifespan for Black men in the city is nine years shorter than every other major racial and ethnic group — the lowest life expectancy of all Boston residents…