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REPORT: Black Women Should Be Thriving, But Racism and Sexism
July 24, 2017By Kenrya Rankin In 1937, Zora Neal Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” made it plain that Black women are the mules of the world. A new study says that, in America at least, nothing has changed. “The Status of Black Women in the...
This Latina Is on a Mission to Bring Healthier, Affordable Food to More Latinx Communities
July 17, 2017By Yvette Montoya Todo Verde has come a long way! Jocelyn Ramirez’s mission to fight for the Latino community’s access to affordable, clean foods began with smoothies and has now grown into a full on catering business. Her journey started...
2017 #NABJ Annual Convention & Career Fair
July 13, 2017The 2017 NABJ Annual Convention and Career Fair is the premier venue for journalism education and career development for the nation’s leaders in media, business, arts and entertainment, and technology. Over 3,000 of the nation’s top journalists,...
Building Health Equity: From Resources to Community Action
June 27, 2017by Elizabeth Hartig - Project Associate, Planning and Community Health Center Research shows that health equity is critical to building a happy, prosperous nation, but that doesn’t mean a one-size-fits-all approach is the answer. Join the Robert...
Study Reveals Race Plays Pivotal Role In How States Dole Out Welfare Benefits
June 9, 2017By Tanasia Kenney The amount of cash welfare assistance available to families in poverty and the terms under which they can receive it largely depend on where they live, according to a recent report by the Urban Institute. The report, published...
Environmental Racism Continues to Deny Black People a Chance for a Healthy Community
May 17, 2017By Danielle Dorsey There’s a reason why Black communities are most often the hosts for waste and sewage facilities, power plants and land fills. For years, our government got away with dumping in and degrading the environment of urban areas, a...
More Than 70 Percent of Gunshot Victims in Miami Are Black, Study Finds
May 12, 2017By Tim Elfrink Florida's gun control debates tend to go like this: NRA-backed GOP politicians propose rules to allow more guns in more places and to decrease accountability for how those guns are used. Opponents bring up actual evidence, like the...
Stopping Trump’s Toxic Budget: The Federal Budget Process and Actions We Can Take
May 12, 2017Thursday, May 18 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (PST) #PublicHealthAwakened Webinar Series Join Public Health Awakened for a webinar on understanding the federal budget process. We expect the Trump administration's budget proposal to come out by the end...
MIT Economist: While the White, Wealthy Few Are Thriving, the Rest of America Is Living In a Third World Nation
May 4, 2017By David Love Much these days is said of income inequality in the U.S., of the gaping, ever-expanding chasm that separates the haves from the have nots, the rich from the poor, the 1 percent from everyone else. This, in the richest nation in the...
Poverty, Compounded
April 25, 2017By Gillian B. White It’s true that poverty affects people of all races, genders, and nationalities, but it’s also true that poverty—especially deep, persistent, intergenerational poverty—plagues some groups more than others. That’s...