This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Centuries of systemic racism and everyday discrimination in the U.S. have left a major mental health burden on African American communities, and the past few years have dealt especially heavy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food is a powerful part of community and medicine. It has the potential to build connections, elicit nostalgia, spark joy, mark celebration, and promote healing. It also plays a role…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Higher rates of COVID-19 infection among essential and frontline workers put a spotlight on underinsured laborers. Essential workers—those who perform a range of jobs and services that are necessary for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a child, Preston J. Arrow-weed lived near a stretch of the Colorado River that traced a wide, sweeping curve through the Fort Yuma-Quechan Reservation, which straddles the border of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The number of people killed by police officers in the U.S. has been massively underreported in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As students across the country wrestled with pandemic stress last winter, sophomore Nathaniel Martinez logged on to a virtual retreat. Forty mostly Black and Latino teens in Chicago were getting…
I tend to think of climate change as fundamentally being an issue of equity, and there’s two big arenas where I think climate change and equity really intersect. So the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Executive Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC), Monique W. Morris, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the Black community amid calls for racial justice. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 2020 Census tells us what we already knew: the country is diverse and continuing to diversify at a rapid rate — in urban, suburban, and rural areas. The data…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black women have nearly a three-fold increased risk of triple negative breast cancers, according to a new study. These types of cancer have a poor prognosis. The analysis of nearly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccination push nine months ago, many experts worried—with justification—that people of color would be left behind. Sadly, it is a well-established fact that people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Citing food inequity among the borough’s minority population, a local nonprofit has opened an urban farm in Brownsville to provide healthy food to the local community, which suffers from high…