News & Media
The National Collaborative for Health Equity presents the latest news, articles, events and program highlights to help you stay connected and informed.
6 Things Every Non-Native Should Do on Thanksgiving
By Brittany Wong “The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history, but honest and inclusive history,” sociologist James W. Loewen writes in “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got...
A Blueprint for Racial Healing in the Biden Era
By Sheryll Cashin (politico.com) The 2020 election offered stark, competing visions for American race relations and politics. President Donald Trump cast himself to suburban white voters as their protecter against anarchy, riots and racial...
Hope Initiative’s Groundbreaking Research on Minority Health Brings “Opportunity Approach” to Redressing Racial and Ethnic Inequities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2020 Contact: Michael K. Frisby 202-625-4328/[email protected] HOPE INITIATIVE’S GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH ON MINORITY HEALTH BRINGS “OPPORTUNITY APPROACH” TO REDRESSING RACIAL AND ETHNIC...
Richardson ISD Superintendent: I’m Learning How to Talk About Systemic Racism in Our District
By Jeannie Stone (dallasnews.com) Words have great power. It’s something I’ve known since my earliest days as a high school English teacher. Now, in my fourth year as superintendent of the Richardson Independent School District, I’ve...
Together Toward Health Launched by Leading Funders to Support COVID-Impacted California Communities
Public Health Institute: Press Release Thirteen major philanthropic foundations have pooled resources to launch Together Toward Health, a $20 million initiative to stop the spread of coronavirus and strengthen health and resilience in...
New Job Opening at The de Beaumont Foundation
Job Opening: Senior Program Officer/Program Officer The de Beaumont Foundation Application Information Click here for the full job description The de Beaumont team is collaborative, passionate, and deeply committed to creating bold solutions...
People of Color Face Disproportionate Pandemic-Related Financial Stress
By Michelle Fox, CNBC This story originally ran on CNBC. The coronavirus pandemic is causing financial stress and anxiety for many Americans, yet it is people of color who are feeling it the most, according to an analysis of the American...
Health Equity Guide – A Human Impact Partners Project
HealthEquityGuide.org is a resource with inspiring examples of how health departments have concretely advanced health equity — both internally within their departments and externally with communities and other government agencies. About the...
A Neighborhood’s Race Affects Home Values More Now Than in 1980
By Brentin Mock U.S. fair housing laws passed in the 1960s and ‘70s were supposed to help bring racial parity to a housing market that since its beginning confined Black homebuyers to the cheapest forms of housing in the most undesirable...
Cost Of Racism: U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Discrimination, Bank Says
By Adedayo Akala Nationwide protests have cast a spotlight on racism and inequality in the United States. Now a major bank has put a price tag on how much the economy has lost as a result of discrimination against African Americans: $16...