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Racism to Blame for Deplorable African-American Infant Mortality Rates, Group Says
By Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — In three years, First Year Cleveland has dramatically reduced the Cuyahoga County infant mortality rate – dropping deaths by 18 percent. But African-American babies are four times as likely...
Black Mothers Need to Wield the Enormous Power of Breastfeeding their Babies
This 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the shores of Virginia on August 25, 1619 was a time for African Americans to re-assert our full humanity. As a mother, holistic doctor and longtime advocate of the benefits of...
NCHE Executive Director Dr. Gail C. Christopher Speaks in Closing Plenary at APHA 2019
APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting - Closing General Session: 1619 - 2019: Health and Justice Denied Join Dr. Christopher for her APHA session on Rx racial healing: Disrupting cycles of injustice by transforming racial beliefs, perceptions and behaviors....
NCHE Leadership Transition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2019 Contact: Michael K. Frisby 202-625-4328/[email protected] NCHE LEADERSHIP TRANSITION: DR. GAIL C. CHRISTOPHER TO SUCCEED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDER DR. BRIAN SMEDLEY WASHINGTON, DC –...
She, The People: Dara Cooper On Food Redlining, Reparations, And Freeing The Land
Reparations in the United States for descendants of enslaved Africans must include repairing the structural devastation that food redlining has caused in Black communities. For Black people, Black southerners in particular, land is sacred and our...
Ensley Alive launches “Branding Ensley”
Birmingham, AL…Ensley stakeholders launch initiative to honor Ensley jazz greats while enticing patrons to visit downtown Ensley retailers. Branding Ensley is an initiative developed by Bettina Byrd-Giles, CEO of The Bethesda Life Center, Inc....
1619-2019: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
www.benjerry.com In America we celebrate the past all the time—the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Bill of Rights, and so much more. It doesn’t matter that these all took place long ago, before we were born, before...
Dr. Brian Smedley Co-writes Article Highlighting the Long Term effects of Housing Discrimination
The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Health Can Reverberate for Decades By Brian Smedley and Rachel A. Davis Last year, reporters at the Center for Investigative Reporting combed through 31 million mortgage lending records in dozens of...
Court Upholds North Dakota Law Stripping Voting Rights From Native Americans
By Imani Gandy, Rewire.News The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a law that strips nearly 10 percent of all voting-age Native Americans living in North Dakota of their right to vote. The case is as much about local...
Bay Area Gentrification Displacing Communities of Color
By Kiley Russell - Bay City News Foundation Alma Blackwell was born and raised in West Oakland but after years of intense gentrification followed by waves of displacement, she barely recognizes her old neighborhood. “There’s almost no one...