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Black, Latino Two-Parent Families Have Half The Wealth Of White Single Parents
February 20, 2017By Adrian Florido The racial wealth gap has been measured and studied for decades. One fact has remained the same: White families build and accumulate more wealth more quickly than black and brown families do. The reasons for this are multiple and...
Race, Place, and Chronic Disease: Segregation as a Root Determinant of Health Inequities
February 16, 2017Please save the date of March 1 for the March 2017 presentation of the Commissioner’s Brown Bag: When: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 12:00 - 1:30pm Who: Brian Smedley, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Collaborative for Health...
Dr. Mary Bassett: We Must ‘Name Racism’ As A Cause of Poor Health
February 14, 2017The Huffington Post The following is excerpted from Dr. Mary Bassett’s October 2016 acceptance speech, ‘Public Health Meets the ‘Problem of the Color Line,’ for Columbia University’s Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health. Bassett is...
How Segregated Schools Built Segregated Cities
February 13, 2017by Emily Lieb More than six decades after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, increasing numbers of black children in the U.S. attend what researchers call “apartheid schools” where students of color comprise more than 99 percent of the...
Did You Know Black Ghettos Were Deliberately Created By Gov’t Sponsored Redlining?
February 10, 2017By A.C. Jemison In light of Dr. Ben Carson’s nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the commencement of the Trump Administration, there is no better time than now to discuss the creation of the “black ghetto” and housing...
Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
February 8, 2017In 1997, a few hundred people who responded to a job posting in a Pittsburgh newspaper agreed to let researchers spray their nostrils with a rhinovirus known to cause the common cold. The people would then be quarantined in hotel rooms for five days...
Five key trends in U.S. student performance
February 1, 2017By Martin Carnoy and Emma García Progress by blacks and Hispanics, the takeoff of Asians, the stall of non-English speakers, the persistence of socioeconomic gaps, and the damaging effect of highly segregated schools In 15 years of increasing...
Redlining suit against Chaska’s KleinBank tests limits of bias laws
January 30, 2017By Jeffrey Meitrodt, Star Tribune A discrimination lawsuit the U.S. Department of Justice recently filed against a family-owned community bank in the Twin Cities’ western suburbs could become the first test of the government’s ability to force...
Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
January 27, 2017Teaching Tolerance - Number 55: Spring 2017 This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children...
Our Cynicism Will Not Build A Movement. Collaboration Will.
January 27, 2017by Alicia Garza I’ve been grappling with how to challenge cynicism in a moment that requires all of us to show up differently. On Saturday, I joined more than a million women in Washington, D.C., to register my opposition to the new regime....