News & Media
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Indigenous Matriarchs Stand Together in Dark Times
By Emilee Gilpin in Features, Culture A group of eight North American Indigenous elder women, weathered in front-line resistance, fluent in their languages and rich in traditional teachings, have joined forces to protect the sacred knowledge...
Being Black in America Is a Health Risk. It’s Time for Reparations.
By Jason Silverstein On Wednesday, Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the news of the legal end of slavery, Congress will hold the first hearing on reparations for Black Americans since 2007. The idea of reparations for slavery and...
Power Station Podcast with Dr. Brian Smedley
Power Station host Ann Pasmanick speaks with Dr. Brian Smedley on Health Equity and what makes it possible. "What makes health equity, the opportunity for all people to be healthy and thrive, possible? According to Dr. Brian...
“Lifting Up Community Voices” Learning Series Presents Its Second Webinar “Sorrow and Outrage”
June 19, 2019 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/2Mv5Cno PRESENTERS Eliza Ramos Eliza Ramos, MPH, MSW, is an award winning activist, healer, and advocate for social justice. She is the CEO...
National Collaborative for Health Equity Aims to Level the Playing Field
Healio Rheumatology, Spring 2019 Racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the United States have confounded experts for decades. An important reason for this is that the problems are multifactorial, with challenges ranging from residential...
Milwaukee County Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis. Will More Cities Follow Suit?
By Anne Branigin In what’s being touted as an important first step in addressing decades of race-based inequality, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele signed a resolution Monday declaring racism a public health crisis. “Everybody has...
Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy
By Roni Caryn Rabin African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women die of pregnancy-related causes at a rate about three times higher than those of white women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on...
Study Finds A Race Gap in Air Pollution — Whites Largely Cause It; Blacks and Hispanics Breathe It
By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The air that Americans breathe isn't equal. Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air that's been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a study. This new research quantifies for the first time the...
Structural Racism Eliminated Black Farmers: Report
By Stacy M. Brown A new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) provides insight on how decades of structural racism within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has led to the virtual elimination of Black farmers. A century...
Study: Gentrification and Cultural Displacement Most Intense in America’s Largest Cities, and Absent From Many Others
By Alyssa Wiltse-Ahmad Gentrification and displacement of long-time residents is most intense in the nation’s biggest cities, and rare in most other places, a new study shows. The study, from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition...