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The Case for Advancing Health Equity: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities
Presentation by Dr. Brian Smedley American Psychological...
Upcoming IOM workshop: Early Childhood Obesity: Science & Solutions
What can we do to address overweight and obesity among society’s youngest? On October 6, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Obesity Solutions will host Obesity in the Early Childhood Years: Emerging Science &...
The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation
The recent events in Charleston, South Carolina, Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, remind us that stigma, inequalities and civil rights injustices remain in our society today. Unfortunately, skin color plays a large part in how...
Residence Rule and Residence Situations – Count Incarcerated People at Home
A Comment Letter has been signed by a number of national civil rights, voting rights, labor and criminal justice organizations in response to the Census Bureau’s federal register notice regarding the Residence Rule and Residence Situations, 80...
America Healing Organizations Applaud Release of HUD’s New Fair Housing Rule
The following statement reflects the views of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s America Healing organizations, a group of civil rights organizations working toward racial equity and racial healing. The organizations include the Poverty &...
Racial Equity Organizations’ Statement on SCOTUS Decision in King v. Burwell
We, the undersigned organizations working to advance racial justice and health equity in the United States, are pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court has found that health insurance subsidies authorized by the landmark Patient Protection and...
Civil rights organizations issue joint statement on the shooting at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leading national health, equity and civil rights groups, joining together as America Healing grantees of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, issued the following joint statement in response to...
RACE – THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION: The Genesis of Discriminatory Housing Policies
"The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision preserved the Fair Housing Act. The Court said that overt racism is not the only cause of discrimination and that unconsciously held stereotypes about people of color can negatively impact housing decisions....