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The current national awakening and acknowledgment that White supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism are responsible for the disproportionate effect of coronavirus disease 2019 and of police brutality on Black or Indigenous people and other people of color, people with disabilities, and sexual and gender minorities have ignited a call to action for public health leaders As public health researchers, we must go beyond merely acknowledging the presence of structural racism and explicitly assess the effect of interconnected systems of oppression on health outcomes Intersectionality is an analytic framework that can be used to describe how people marginalized by structural inequities interact with these oppressive systems but only if implemented in the way it was envisioned by Black and Black lesbian feminists 1,2