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How Reparations Could Improve Black Health and Wellbeing
March 4, 2024Reparations should be a public health priority. For too long, Black individuals have experienced disparities that have impacted the quality of their lives. Reparations can help break down these barriers and close the health gap, so everyone has an...
Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap
September 19, 2023Undeniably, discrimination, structural inequality, and biases in institutions are the root causes of the vast racial wealth gap in the United States. By Ricardo Mimbela & Katie Duarte, ACLU (Read...
The Economic Well-being of Black Americans and the Implications for Health Equity
August 2, 2023Black Americans have been critical to the economy of the United States from its inception as a collection of 13 colonies to its establishment as the world’s dominant superpower. Read the full...
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...
NCHE’s Dr. Brian Smedley Testifies in Support of Senator Nathan-Pulliam’s Legislation, S.B. 869
March 21, 2016NCHE Executive Director Dr. Brian Smedley testified on March 9 at the request of Maryland State Senator Shirley Nathan-Pulliam in support of her legislation, S.B. 869, that would create a Commission on Reconciliation and Equity to "unearth the true...