MAKING THE CASE FOR INTEGRATION According to an article in the American Educator, researchers who have studied school integration have documented similar benefits for both students of color and white students. We now have a vast body of empirical evidence that many of the Black and Latino children who participated in the METCO program—a voluntary…

Large racial differences in health persist in the U.S. Eliminating these health disparities is another public health challenge of our time. Racial residential segregation is the cornerstone on which black-white disparities in health status have been built in the US. Racial groups characterized by legacies of social exclusion, economic disadvantage and political or geographic marginalization have…

When I set out to learn more about systemic racism, I quickly realized how ignorant I was. Ignorant about how systemic racism came about, about how our laws enabled segregation, how we have perpetuated racism through the generations. The more I read, the more the books opened new areas of unawareness. For example, I learned…