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Read, Watch, Listen, Learn about Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism, Week of August 10, 2020
No strings, no bureaucracy, but suddenly $1.4 million to help a Black community (Washington Post) Portland community activist Cameron Whitton founded the Black Resilience Fund giving qualified Black Portlanders applicants $300 “for utility bills, car insurance or transportation, medical costs,…
Read MoreRead, Watch, Listen, Learn about Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism, Week of August 8, 2020
Hispanic, Black children at higher risk of coronavirus-related hospitalization, CDC finds (Washington Post) Hispanic children are approximately eight times more likely and Black children five times more likely to be hospitalized with covid-19 than their White peers, according to a study…
Read MoreRead, Watch, Learn about Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism, Week of July 25, 2020
158 Resources to Understand Racism in America by Meilan Solly. These articles, videos, podcasts and websites from the Smithsonian chronicle the history of anti-black violence and inequality in the United States. Large DNA Study Traces Violent History of American Slavery…
Read MoreEvanston, Ill., Has A Reparations Plan
On NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Evanston, Illinois Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons describes the town’s plan to use a portion of the taxes collected on the sale of recreational marijuana to help African American residents who are being priced out of…
Read MoreInfant mortality is about racism
At Ohio’s fourth biennial summit on infant mortality. Speakers urged the attendees to look at infant mortality as a legacy of racism: African-American infants are dying at three times the rate of white babies in Ohio. To read the newspaper…
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