racial disparities
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Justice Department Makes Moves to Undo Certain Civil Rights Protections
Instead of just filing a two-week notice and coasting until Inauguration Day, the Justice Department has opted to drastically shift civil rights protections for underrepresented groups. According to the New York Times, the Justice Department has proposed a change to the way Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is enforced. Title VI prohibits organizations…
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Air Force Investigation Finds Black Personnel Are Subject to More Disciplinary Action, Face Numerous Racial Disparities
I think it’s safe to say we live in a post-George Floyd world. Floyd’s tragic, violent death has spurred a nationwide reckoning on racial injustice in just about every field, including the armed forces. An investigation launched shortly after Floyd’s death has found that Black members of the United States Air Force are more likely…
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As U.S. Faces Surge in Coronavirus Cases, Study Shows Black Americans Most Likely to Know Someone Who's Died from the Virus
Across the world, coronavirus cases are popping up again. But in few other countries has the virus had as disastrous a toll as it has in America, which has failed to meet the challenge of managing the worst public health crisis in the century. It’s worth asking if that mismanagement is due, in part, to…
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Nursing Homes With High Numbers of Black and Latinx Residents Twice as Likely to Be Hit by COVID-19
A reporting investigation by the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun has uncovered deep racial disparities in nursing homes hit by the coronavirus. From the beginning of the pandemic, the elderly were identified as particularly vulnerable to suffering the worst effects of the novel virus. But the data parsed by the Times and the…
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Lawmakers and Advocates Grow Increasingly Frustrated With Lack of Comprehensive Racial Data on COVID-19 Cases
Nearly three months after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U.S., more than 1.1 million people have been infected with the coronavirus, with at least 92,000 deaths recorded. But despite the clear and pervasive toll the virus has had on Americans and American life, a substantial number of states and territories are still not…
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More Than 80% of Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 in Georgia Were Black, CDC Reports
As Georgia gets set to reopen more non-essential business this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study finding that more than 80 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients were black. Shared on Wednesday, the CDC study looked at 305 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in eight Georgia hospitals, seven of which were in…
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Thanks to Black Women, There's More Political Interest in Fixing Black Maternal Care Than Ever Before
Racial disparities in maternal care have been an issue for decades—and for decades, many politicians were content with ignoring the issue or made decisions that actively exacerbated inequality. But in recent years, there has been a sea change nationwide as more elected officials at every level of government have committed themselves to addressing black maternal…
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We Figured Out Why Coronavirus Is Killing Black People…As If You Didn't Already Know the Answer
Tamara is “essential.” Even though she has no medical training, no experience in law enforcement and has never driven an ambulance or extinguished a fire, Tamara is still technically an “emergency responder.” She risks her life every day to work as a case manager for the state of Alabama’s Department of Human Resources, even after…
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Can a City Be Cervical Cancer-Free? Chicago Aims to Eradicate a Preventable Cancer by Focusing on Racial Disparities
Say what you want about Chicago’s winter weather, sports teams, crime rate (though it still fails to rank among America’s top 10 most dangerous cities), and eyebrow-raising celebrity exports (we won’t name names, but the list keeps growing), but the city is also increasingly becoming a leader in health advocacy, particularly as it relates to…