198371 external_news 1363004149 1475893581 "Early on, heart disease researchers were really focused on elite white men, on the stressful lives that they were living, and that were sedentary. Obviously that was not all Americans in the 1920s and 30s. There were a lot of people who were left out of that story," said Anne Pollock, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. "With the progress and democracy that has happened through social justice movements, those notions about heart disease risk have also expanded." Source: Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC, March 10, 2013

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