News & Media
The National Collaborative for Health Equity presents the latest news, articles, events and program highlights to help you stay connected and informed.
From Resolutions to Transformation: How Unions Are Organizing for Racial Justice
By Stephanie Luce, Organizing Upgrade (Read...
Truth and Racial Healing Press Kit Release
Achieving health equity requires eliminating racism. We are supportive of Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s ongoing and long-standing leadership on issues of racial justice and equity. She has introduced a resolution calling for the creation of a US...
The Case for Racism Response Funds – A Collective Response to Racist Acts
By Monica C. Bell (The Appeal) The catalogue of recorded moments when white people call the police to report Black and brown people for no good reason is so large, and growing so fast, that the response has become routine: A video is posted on...
Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon and Last Living Speaker at the March on Washington, Has Died
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights leader who served in Congress since 1987, has died after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer, Friday. He was 80. Lewis was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer on...
Systemic Changes Must Go Beyond Just Policing. Human and Social Services Need Reform, Too.
By Nicole P. Marwell, Jennifer E. Mosley (Read...
L.A. Latino, Black Students Suffered Deep Disparities in Online Learning, Records Show
By Paloma Esquivel, Howard Blume More than 50,000 Black and Latino middle and high school students in Los Angeles did not regularly participate in the school system’s main platform for virtual classrooms after campuses closed in March, a...
Reckoning with Race in Public Media
By The Takeaway (Read...
‘All You Want Is to Be Believed’: The Impacts of Unconscious Bias in Health Care
By April Dembosky (Read...
Join Us on the Webinar (7/30) – Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial Equity by Promoting Health, Economic Opportunity and Criminal Justice Reform
Please join National Collaborative for Health Equity, Trust for America’s Health, American Public Health Association, and the NAACP, on July 30, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET for a congressional briefing titled, Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial...
An Island Amid Mississippi’s Covid Madness
By Makani Themba (Read...