This research proposes to rewrite the history of the right to health from the perspective of the health of the black population as a field under construction. We assume that the diseases and health problems that affect the black population are largely the result of racism that does not recognize and make black bodies invisible. In this sense, the work discusses the health of the black population since the History of Law and is influenced by Law no. 10,639 / 2003, which establishes the obligation to teach Afro-Brazilian and African culture at different levels and modes of education. It discusses some aspects of the struggle for the right to health in the National Constituent Assembly and we advocate the need for blackening of the Health Law. We demonstrate some singularities that mark the process of constitution of the health field of the black population and, finally, we present the route of elaboration of the National Policy for Integral Health of the Black Population. The objective of this work is to problematize the absence of research on health of the black population in Law, more specifically in Health Law and in the History of Law.