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White People Are Getting Vaccinated at Higher Rates Than Black and Latino Americans
February 10, 2021By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Deidre McPhillips (CNN) Black and Latino Americans are receiving the Covid-19 vaccine at significantly lower rates than White people -- a disparity that health advocates blame on the federal government and hospitals not...
Black History Month 2021 Celebration Comes in Wake of Widespread Protests over George Floyd’s Death, Racial Reckoning in U.S.
February 4, 2021By Karen Jordan CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been 45 years since the first observation of Black History Month. This year, the celebration of the contributions of Black people comes in the wake of widespread protests over the death of George Floyd and a...
NCHE’s Executive Director Dr. Gail Christopher Gives Interview With Roll Call’s Mary Curtis
February 1, 2021Social change agent Dr. Gail C Christopher is on a mission to heal our nation, and dismantle the collective belief at the core of our dysfunction: that some lives are worth more than others. Dr. Christopher has been advising Congress on how we can...
North Carolina Hospitals Join Others in Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis
January 29, 2021BY RICHARD STRADLING https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article247235884.html (Read...
If racism is a lie, how has it been sustained, institutionalized and structured in America?
January 28, 2021...
In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See
January 28, 2021https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/19/911909187/in-u-s-cities-the-health-effects-of-past-housing-discrimination-are-plain-to-see By Maria Godoy Torey Edmonds has lived in the same house in an African-American neighborhood of the...
Black and Latino Renters Face Eviction, Exclusion Amid Police Crackdowns in California
January 27, 2021https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-11-19/california-housing-policies-hurt-black-latino-renters By Liam Dillon, Ben Poston, Julia Barajas Three years after his release from prison following a cocaine dealing conviction, Terrance...
White people are getting vaccinated at higher rates than Black and Latino Americans
January 26, 2021...
Black Babies In Kansas Are Twice As Likely As White Kids To Die Before Their First Birthday
January 26, 2021Black Babies In Kansas Are Twice As Likely As White Kids To Die Before Their First Birthday KCUR | By Nomin Ujiyediin Medical experts say social inequality and racism in medicine can be deadly for Black infants, mothers and families. Black and...
Collaboartives Health Equity (CHE) Cook Count Event
January 25, 2021Join our Collaboratives for Health Equity (CHE) Cook County team, on January 28th, as they speak on what is needed in order to change the maldistribution of money, power, and resources that produces the gross injustices and inequities we see in our...