NBA NewsSep 16
It’s a scary thought right now https://www.rawchili.com/nba/285828/ #Basketball #Bronny #Cavaliers #Cleveland #ClevelandCavaliers #ClevelandCavaliers #LeBronJames #LosAngelesLakers #NBA #RacialDisparities #TrafficStops
LilMikeSFSep 1

#Coincidence or #Conspiracy ?

Black women lost 319,000 jobs in #USA
since #DJT took office, while #WhiteMen saw the largest hiring increase — 365,000 newly acquired jobs.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010334838/why-black-women-are-seeing-job-losses.html?smid=url-share #USA #JobLosses #RacialDisparities #NyTimes #Equiity #Employment

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Jun 12

“Environmental advocates are questioning the actions of a private university in Louisiana following the resignation of a scientist who researches the health and job disparities in a heavily industrialized part of Louisiana known as ‘Cancer Alley.’”

#EnvironmentalJustice #AcademicFreedomsAtRisk #ClimateCrisis #CancerAlley #Research #LawClinic #TulaneUniversity #GagOrder #Science #EnvironmentalScience #PublicHealth #Jobs #RacialDisparities #HealthDisparities #Economics

https://floodlightnews.org/tulane-scientist-resigns-citing-gag-order-on-environmental-justice-research/

Tulane scientist resigns, citing ‘gag order’ on environmental justice research

Emails show a racial disparities study angered elected Louisiana officials and potential donors to a $600 million university-led redevelopment project

Floodlight
Shine My CrownMar 17
Beauty Influencer’s Death Sparks Urgent Calls for Black Women’s Health Advocacy https://shinemycrown.com/beauty-influencers-death-sparks-urgent-calls-for-black-womens-health-advocacy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackWomensHealth #HealthcareEquity #RacialDisparities #HealthAdvocacy #JusticeForJessica
Beauty Influencer's Death Sparks Urgent Calls for Black Women’s Health Advocacy

Jessica Pettway in March 2024 after a seven-month misdiagnosis has ignited a broader conversation about racial disparities in healthcare.

Shine My Crown
Different ThanFeb 27

Noticing something about this article. Compare

Group 1-------------

"We need race info to save lives"
-- Director of public health association

"Nobody can act responsibly when we erase past and present injustices"
-- Medical historian, org about ethics, history, & public health

Group 2 -------------

"No DEI-related words allowed"
-- RFK

"It's time to rethink our words," "race words are so divisive," "these words close people's minds"
-- Dean at WSTLU

Important note: a dean is not a regular faculty member. A dean is someone who chose to wear suits and learn #business jargon so they could make a lot more money than they could as a mere #professor. Deans have different pay structures, incentives, and professional-social groups than regular faculty. In other words, deans are #management, not #labor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-dei-cdc-language.html

#publichealth #race #racialdisparities #rfk #uspol #dei

C.D.C. Suggests Terms Like ‘Race’ and ‘Health Equity’ Are Off-Limits, Then Backtracks

President Trump’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are making life difficult for some public health officials, who view eliminating racial disparities as part of their mission.

The New York Times
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Sep 5, 2024
#Black #suspects, even when #unarmed, are not afforded the same #deference by #police, often facing #lethalforce. This highlights #racialdisparities in #lawenforcement’s #decisionmaking on the #useofforce.
NeeAnahAug 4, 2024

Current Read:
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of his essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in Mississippi. In this collection, Laymon deals in depth with his own personal story, which is filled with trials and reflections that illuminate under-appreciated aspects of contemporary American life.

#bookstodon #mississippi #racialdisparities #thoughtprovoking

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Jan 20, 2024

“This [economic] recovery has undoubtedly been more robust than the last. However, data corroborates what polls have indicated—despite a strong overall recovery, certain groups are still being left behind, evidenced by significant racial and regional gaps.”

#Economics #EconomicRecovery #RacialDisparities #AmericanRescuePlan #Election2024

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/01/16/topline-economic-indicators-miss-struggling-communities/

How Topline Economic Indicators—like Low Unemployment—Miss Struggling Communities - Roosevelt Institute

Current macroeconomic indicators and labor market statistics paint a picture of a resilient economy underpinned by a robust labor market. When one turns attention to the state level, however, it becomes clear that the labor market is fragmented. Some of the nation's most populated states are reaping minimal or no benefits from the tightness of the national labor market.

Roosevelt Institute
Rich Stein (he/him)Dec 29, 2023

The US is not really a land of opportunity nor free for many who are trapped by where and into what circumstances they are born — however neither is opportunity completely unavailable. A big policy question: how to help more escape stagnation associated with poor socioeconomic "birth lottery" prospects.

"Perspective: Children born poor have little margin for mistakes or bad decisions, regardless of race"
https://apnews.com/article/homicide-poverty-social-security-caste-system-american-318c9dbd5a01f5d9dd6e57198549dd5f
#race #disparities #income #inequality #RacialDisparities

Perspective: Children born poor have little margin for mistakes or bad decisions, regardless of race

Alfred King was lying in the parking lot of a small apartment building, mortally wounded when police in Alexandria, Louisiana got to the intersection of 12th and Magnolia streets shortly before 1:30 a.m., January 20. He came into the world on the bottom economic rung and, when he was 13, a critical decision was made that likely kept him there. We say people can be whatever they want to be, but moving through the socioeconomic levels of America’s economics-based caste system is more than a notion. According to a Harvard study by the groundbreaking Opportunity Insights project, only 2.5% of Black kids born to a parent or parents in the bottom quintile move to the top quintile of household income. For white kids, the figure is 10.6%.

AP News
CPIPROct 7, 2023
Young African-American women tend to live closer to pharmacies than their white counterparts but they face contraceptive access challenges such as more difficult access to condoms (49% vs 85% on the shelf instead of restricted access or n/a) #NICHDImpact #RacialDisparities #Contraception #Neighborhoods
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30788813
Contraceptive Desert? Black-White Differences in Characteristics of Nearby Pharmacies - PubMed

Relative to white women, African-American women may face a "contraception desert," wherein they live nearer to pharmacies, but those pharmacies have characteristics that may impede the purchase of contraception.

PubMed