News & Media
The National Collaborative for Health Equity presents the latest news, articles, events and program highlights to help you stay connected and informed.
Pollution Is Killing Black Americans. This Community Fought Back.
By Linda Villarosa hen Kilynn Johnson walks out the door of the house her parents bought in 1972, where she grew up and lives to this day, she steps into the warm embrace of a community where neighbors feel more like kin. Her home sits across the...
Loss of a Hero who Believed in Healing and America’s Potential
By Gail C. Christopher Congressman John Lewis understood that human suffering often ignites the human heart, a phenomenon experienced globally recently as George Floyd’s suffering spurs an awakening to the racism around us. As a young...
How Discussions of ‘Neighborhood Character’ Reinforce Structural Racism
by Gretchen Brown, Rewire When the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, proposed developing apartment buildings and retail space on an empty industrial site, an opinion piece in Growler Magazine compared the proposed development to a metal...
From Resolutions to Transformation: How Unions Are Organizing for Racial Justice
By Stephanie Luce, Organizing Upgrade The recent wave of protests against police brutality open space for unions to step up their fight for racial justice. Many national unions issued statements in support of the protests and condemning police...
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 In cities across the country, mayors and city councils are being called on by protesters to slash police budgets and use those government dollars differently. By shifting vast public spending from police...
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 In the midst of a nationwide push for racial justice, public media is having a reckoning of its own. Across the country, journalists and staff are speaking out at public radio stations about failed attempts at diversifying...