Racism
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome - Rosa Parks
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How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change.
Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new generation of activists to shape strategies that best fit the times. But I believe there are some basic lessons to draw from past efforts that are worth remembering.
First, the waves of protests across the country represent a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States.…
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Winning Trust for a Vaccine Means Confronting Medical Racism
The US has a long history of abusing minorities for pharmaceutical profit. Messaging for a Covid-19 inoculation will have to overcome that past.
Failed Autopsies, False Arrests: A Risk of Bias in Death Examinations
Disastrous errors by medical examiners have raised questions about whether they are influenced by prejudgments and a close relationship with the police.
Talking to Kids About Racism, Early and Often
“It is not enough to talk about racism, you must strive to be anti-racist and fight against racist policies and practices," Dr. Heard-Garris said. If you have the privilege, “make space, speak up or amplify issues of inequity and injustice.” Children see everything.
The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S.
Despite great progress across two centuries, exclusion and injustice remain the reality for too many black Americans.
'All You Want Is To Be Believed': Sick With COVID-19 And Facing Racial Bias In The ER
Her experiences in the medical system, she reasons, are part of why people of color are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus. She says it is not just because they're more likely to have front-line jobs that expose them to the virus, and the underlying health conditions that can lead to a more serious COVID-19 infection. "That is certainly part of it, but the other part is the lack of value people see in our lives," Monterroso wrote in a Twitter thread detailing her experience.
America’s Enduring Caste System
Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.
George Floyd: these are the injustices that led to the protests in the United States
The same systemic racism that results in excessive police force and insufficient healthcare has stunted economic progress for black Americans since the founding of the country.
How the coronavirus, record unemployment, and years of African American deaths in police custody exploded into the biggest protests in 50 years
"It's not just about police violence," Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, told The Hill. "It's about a whole bunch of things that people just maybe don't pay attention to along the way and a lot of that is stemmed from the economic impact of discrimination affecting these communities over time."
When Racism Anchors Your Health
An exploration of health disparities in America shows that even if you’re a black American in 2018 with a sound bank account, you can’t buy whiteness.
Why Most Americans Support the Protests
Never before in the history of modern polling has the country expressed such widespread agreement on racism’s pervasiveness in policing, and in society at large.
Your Stories of Racism: Around the World
In our fourth installment of a series prompted by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son,” readers share their experiences with bigotry outside the United States.
“A Juneteenth like no other”: Juneteenth celebrations take on a special meaning this year
Recognition of Juneteenth appears to be changing amid a broader cultural shift intended to reckon more deeply with the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination in American life.
A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries
Immigration and national identity are big, touchy issues in much of Europe, where racial make-ups are changing. Though you might expect the richer, better-educated Western European nations to be more tolerant than those in Eastern Europe, that's not exactly the case.
Black Health Matters
Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.
Dear White America
I have a weighty request. As you read this letter, I want you to listen with love, a sort of love that demands that you look at parts of yourself that might cause pain and terror, as James Baldwin would say. Did you hear that? You may have missed it. I repeat: I want you to listen with love. Well, at least try.
How Racism Creeps Into Medicine
The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference.
Letter to My Son
"Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
Parkland is sparking a difficult conversation about race, trauma, and public support
But in a country that still struggles to confront its racial demons, addressing the larger rift in who gets attention and who doesn’t will require much more.
Racism by Any Other Name
Terms such as “racial conflict” fail to describe the challenge Obama faced, or the resentment that has powered Trump’s rise.
Racism in America Today Is Alive and Well — And These Stats Prove It
America is far from having quelled its racism problem. Whether it's treatment by police or susceptibility to poverty, one's skin color can determine a whole range of variables in life. Particularly, blacks in America face a disproportionate number of social and economic barriers — but the racial problem is not binary. It extends way beyond a white-black disparity, affecting Hispanics, Arabs and a miscellany of other minorities.
Racism Is Still The Global Issue That No One Wants To Talk About
It’s tragic that in 2014, the United States of America is still dealing with systematic racial discrimination, particularly given the history of the country in relation to slavery and Jim Crow. Progress is a bumpy and convoluted road. Yet, the United States is not alone, as there are also many disturbing trends surrounding race, immigration and politics in Europe.
Racism Ruins Lives
A place for people of all races to show their support for 'fairness, equality and tolerance'.
Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans
The American health care system in beset with inequalities that have a disproportionate impact on people of color and other marginalized groups. These inequalities contribute to gaps in health insurance coverage, uneven access to services, and poorer health outcomes among certain populations. African Americans bear the brunt of these health care challenges.
Racism’s Psychological Toll
We have great treatments that are empirically supported for trauma, but the racial piece hasn’t really been studied very well.
Racist Objects: A Painful Past Still Present
They are hard to look at. But we can’t ignore the horrors of our racist past, because they influence our present.
The Easiest Way to Get Rid of Racism? Just Redefine It
“Racism” spent the first half of the 20th century in competition with another word, “racialism,” though neither featured prominently in our national conversation. Then came the civil rights era, when the word took on for many a convenient new meaning, one that had more to do with the human heart than with practices like redlining, gerrymandering or voter intimidation.
The Evolution of Prejudice
Scientists see the beginnings of racism in monkeys.
The Flexibility of Racial Bias
Research suggests that racism is not hard wired, offering hope on one of America’s enduring problems.
The Hidden Truth: The Rising Tide of “Global Racism” and Xenophobia
It is up to us as human beings to see through the oligarchs’ sinister divide and conquer formula that brainwashes people into hating, blaming and killing others. Until we realize that it is not a particular nation, or racial group, or religious group that is our enemy, but the ruling elite that are pulling all the murderous strings that is the true enemy of humankind, we will forever be locked in chains. Only in mindful awareness and unified solidarity can the true enemy of life be challenged and overcome.
The politics and policy of racism in American health care
We’d have to go as far back as slavery to fully grasp the racial history of US health care, but I’ll start at a much more proximate place: 1946. On August 13 of that year, President Harry Truman signed the Hill-Burton Act.
The Top 12 Most Racist Countries in the World
While international consensus has evolved over thousands of years from accepting racial discrimination as a way of life to utterly rejecting it and defining it as a crime, billions of people around the world still suffer the consequences of racism on a daily basis by states, governments, private enterprises and individuals.
There Is No Post-Racial America
The United States needs more than a good president to erase centuries of violence.
Trump's EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real
A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency finds that people of color are much more likely to live near polluters and breathe polluted air—even as the agency seeks to roll back regulations on pollution.
What Are Healthy Responses to the Sick Aspects of Society?
Reactions inside and outside of Ferguson to a grand jury's refusal to indict Michael Brown's killer, which many regarded as yet one more example of the inequity people of color suffer at the hands of police, raise the question of what is the most effective means of protest. The answer is a bit too unclear for comfort.
Why racism is not backed by science
As we harvest ever more human genomes one fact remains unshakeable: race does not exist.
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
So the bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both. We have to mobilize to raise awareness, and we have to organize and cast our ballots to make sure that we elect candidates who will act on reform. Let’s get to work - Barack Obama
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Our mission is to activate, connect, and mobilize the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent the full participation and leadership of Black and Latinx people in the innovation economy.
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Global Issues
Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. Racism and discrimination have been used as powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of others in times of conflict and war, and even during economic downturns.
Our Data Bodies
We are sharing knowledge and tools for data justice and for data access for equity. Our project aims to help movements for justice and to support trusted modes of community health and safety.
Racism. It Stops with Me
Racism has no place in Australia. Since 2012, Racism. It Stops with Me has helped our community respond to prejudice. It is a campaign built on the efforts of people in their neighbourhoods, schools, universities, clubs, and workplaces.
Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism
The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) is an international non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization devoted to eliminating discrimination and racism, forging international solidarity among discriminated minorities and advancing the international human rights system.
Racism Facts
The term is used in a negative sense, and is often associated with practices such as prejudice, violence, discrimination and oppression based on racial differences.
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