This article was produced as a project for the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism's 2016 National Fellowship.
After the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a blockbuster series in 2011 on the city's high infant mortality rate, the mayor vowed to reduce the black infant death rate by 15 percent in six years. Five years later, the black rate has gone up. What happened?
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