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Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukemia
February 28, 2017By Mike Gaworecki, With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, it's also pushing ever closer into areas where...
Livestream: A Conversation with Cedric Richmond
February 28, 2017Live stream today: Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 10:30 am ET - 12:00 pm ET Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for a conversation with Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, or CBC, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) as he...
How Voter ID Laws Discriminate
February 23, 2017by Vann R. Newkirk II A new comprehensive study finds evidence that strict voting laws do suppress the ballot along racial lines. For all the fervor of the current debate over voter ID laws, there’s a startling lack of good data on their...
Losing a Grocery Store Changes a Neighborhood
February 22, 2017By Emily Payne, Alexina Cather, Charles Platkin, and Emma Cosgrove Victor Papa was born in 1945 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. “Never left and never will,” said the 71-year-old president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, a...
Racial gaps in wages, wealth, and more: a quick recap
February 21, 2017by Elise Gould Recently, I had the opportunity to present some key facts on 1A, a new NPR news program, about the state of black America. Drawing heavily upon research by my colleague Valerie Wilson and her co-author William Rodgers III, I reported...
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...