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Health, Opportunity, and Equity (HOPE) Initiative Data Used to Locate Food Insecure Communities

Health, Opportunity, and Equity (HOPE) Initiative Data Used to Locate Food Insecure Communities

Announcements, Articles | June 29 2021

NCHE has partnered with KIND Snacks (KIND) to support the company’s efforts to address racial inequality and inequity facing Black, Indigenous, People of Color communities across areas of racial justice, education, food & insecurity. With...

Anatomy of a Health Conundrum: The Racial Gap in Vaccinations

Anatomy of a Health Conundrum: The Racial Gap in Vaccinations

Articles | June 28 2021

By Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Washington Post (Read...

AHA News: Discrimination May Change Heart Structure in Hispanic Adults

AHA News: Discrimination May Change Heart Structure in Hispanic Adults

Articles | June 25 2021

By Thor Christensen, American Heart Association News (Read...

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership

Articles | June 22 2021

By Ailsa Chang, Christopher Intagliata, Jonaki Mehta (Read...

Education Usually Improves Health. But Racism Sabotages Benefits For Black Men

Education Usually Improves Health. But Racism Sabotages Benefits For Black Men

Articles | June 14 2021

By Virginia Anderson, NPR "More education typically leads to better health, yet Black men in the U.S. are not getting the same benefit as other groups, research...

Black Appraisers Call Out Industry’s Racial Bias and Need for Systemic Change

Black Appraisers Call Out Industry’s Racial Bias and Need for Systemic Change

| June 11 2021

"The largely insular appraisal industry of 78,000 is skewed over 85 percent white with less than 2 percent of appraisers identifying as Black." By Safia Samee Ali (Read...

Latinx and Low-Income Communities Are Paying the Human Costs of Plastic Pollution

Latinx and Low-Income Communities Are Paying the Human Costs of Plastic Pollution

Articles | June 7 2021

By Yvette Arellano & Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes, Prism Latinx and low-income communities are suffering from the effects of plastics manufacturing. (Read...

How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And Wealth In Chicago

How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And Wealth In Chicago

Articles | June 4 2021

By Terry Gross, npr.org (Read...

Structural Racism, High Blood Pressure, Black People’s Health All Linked, Experts Say

Structural Racism, High Blood Pressure, Black People’s Health All Linked, Experts Say

| June 2 2021

By American Heart Association News, chicago.suntimes.com "Untreated, high blood pressure can lead to disabling, potentially fatal illnesses including heart disease, stroke, dementia, kidney disease, sexual dysfunction, vision loss." (Read...

New Commission To Tackle How National Health Data Are Collected, Shared, And Used

New Commission To Tackle How National Health Data Are Collected, Shared, And Used

Articles | June 1 2021

By Alonzo Plough Gail C. Christopher, healthaffairs.org "COVID-19 has shown us once again that wealth, racism, and privilege play an outsized role in how long and how well people live. Philanthropy has long sought to address the confluence of...