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Flooding Broke Open Jackson’s Water Crisis, but It Can’t Be Disentangled From Race, Experts Say
By Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY Recent flooding in Jackson, Mississippi, exacerbated the city's already failing water system. Experts say it's a familiar threat in disinvested communities of color. (Read...
Marginalized Communities Impacted by Rising Inflation in Connecticut
Fox61, www.fox61.com Author: Raquel Harrington (Fox61) Findings stated that 58% of Black and Native American families reported not having enough emergency savings to cover at least one month of their expenses. (Read...
The most vulnerable people in America bear the brunt of high inflation.
PBS NewsHour, Video "While inflation eased slightly last month, it continues to remain high and new data shows it's having an outsized, negative impact on Native American, Black and Latino families in particular, according to a poll out this week...
Poll: High U.S. Inflation Rates Are Having a More Serious Impact on Black, Latino, and Native American Households than White Households
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Article In an NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey, people of color are significantly more likely than Whites to report they are currently experiencing serious...
#EquityandData Newsletter Summer 2022 Issue Has Been Released!
The #EquityandData Newsletter is now available! The newsletter was developed to raise awareness of work related to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems. There are relevant news articles,...
Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) Statement in Recognition of Juneteenth, 2022
Chair of the TFAH Board of Directors Gail Christopher, D.N. and President and CEO J. Nadine Gracia, M.D., MSCE released the following statement in recognition of Juneteenth, 2022. (Washington, DC – June 17, 2022) -- “Juneteenth is a...
Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity
Genuine discussions about racial inequities are necessary, difficult, and urgent. Many forces work to keep people from discussing racism. Conversations and narratives often generate unproductive fear, shame, guilt, avoidance, and denial in the...
Forgotten Native Indian Boarding Schools and Burial Sites Uncovered
Feds Seek to Undo Harm From Forced Assimilation Schools. By Sarafina Wright, The Washington Informer (Read...
Gordon Plaza Was Sold as a Dream for Black Home Buyers. It Was a Toxic Nightmare.
New Orleans city officials allowed developers to build homes on land contaminated with chemicals linked to cancer. They didn’t tell the people who moved in. By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post (Read...
The Work toward Equity That Awaits a Pandemic-Weary Nation: Analysis
The nation will soon mark 1 million COVID-19 deaths. By Richard Besser (Read...