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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...
How Mass Incarceration Literally Makes Children Sick
April 12, 2017By Willie Burnley Jr. There has long been research suggesting that incarceration has negative health consequences for the incarcerated, but a new study from British medical journal The Lancet indicates that incarceration can negatively impact the...
A racist stereotype is shattered: Study finds white youth are more likely to abuse hard drugs than black youth
April 11, 2017By Robin Scheralternet By now we can all agree that the real target of Reagan’s enduring war on drugs was never drugs, it was African Americans. But if rising incarceration rates among black youth or the utter failure to curtail drug use is not...