Black and Brown America is in the middle of a health crisis — one only Black and Brown leaders can fix.

It’s true Congress is becoming more diverse, including the man who may well become the first Black speaker this time next year. A Black woman holds the vice presidency for the first time in American history. All of them sit where they are thanks to the civil rights leaders who taught us all that it’s not enough to have power — it’s what you do with it that matters.

And right now, tens of thousands of Black and Brown organ transplant recipients who rely on Medicare need their power. Since last March, they’ve been unable to access life-saving, non-invasive blood tests able to catch an organ rejection months before physical symptoms show up. This test has been a miracle for those of us who have received such a gift because it eased the daily anxiety of a potential failure. And it was significantly less painful or time consuming than a biopsy, which is often done too late to stop a rejection.

Yet thousands of these tests were canceled literally overnight last year, when a private contractor under the Centers for Medicare and........

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