Combating Racism – Understanding Educational Disparities – Part 2
Combating Racism – Understanding Educational Disparities – Part 1
It is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
— Chief Justice Earl Warren, Brown v. Board...
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Combating Racism – Understanding Health Disparities
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 worse...
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Combating Racism – Education
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 that...
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