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By Jeff Nesbit We clearly have a problem in America. When almost 90 percent of white people in America who take the Implicit Association Test show an inherent racial bias for white people versus black people, that means something. When...

Dr. Martin Luther King reminded allies for justice that “the arc of history is long, but it always bends toward justice.”  These words were perhaps never more important than they are today.  As we remember Dr. King today, let us plan...

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By Tanasia Kenney Protesters and police officers seemingly have one thing in common, according to a new survey: Both agree that bad cops aren’t held accountable by the police force for poor performance. A recently released Pew Research...

By Tim Henderson SPRECKELS, Calif. — Like many farms facing labor shortages in the West, the Tanimura & Antle vegetable farm in California’s Salinas Valley was in a bind for the 2015 harvest season. It was more than 225 workers shy of the...

In a victory for Native American rights, the earth, and her people, the US Army Corps of Engineers will not approve the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath the Missouri River near sacred burial sites of the Standing Rock Sioux. The decision is a victory...

In the week since the presidential election, the nation has witnessed an ugly outpouring of hate.  As if a lid had been lifted off of a simmering hot cauldron, a latent but never dormant force of intolerance and bigotry served as a driving force in...

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe announced yesterday the release of Mni Wiconi: The Stand at Standing Rock, a new, 10-minute film that explores the nearly eight-month battle to stop construction of the pipeline on sacred tribal lands. Mni Wiconi –...

DSC Web Seminar Series in Partnership with the Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (HPOE) of the American Hospital Association A Look Behind the Curtain: Health Care Reform and the Path to Equity Learn what’s at stake for the health equity...

‌‌The Health of the States (HOTS) project is a detailed analysis of state rankings on 39 health outcomes, and correlations between those health outcomes and 123 determinants of health spanning five domains: health care, health behaviors, social...