Tag: equity
Reading Room: Racism in the USA: Ensuring Asian American Health Equity
Racist anti-Asian incidents and rhetoric in the USA have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, by some accounts increasing as much as 150%. The horrific mass shooting on…
Reading Room: Implicit Bias
A quarter-century ago, social psychologist Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington developed a test that exposed an uncomfortable aspect of the human mind: People have deep-seated biases of…
Reading Room: From the Desk of Cindy Gordineer
Dear United Way Friends, I hope this note continues to find you and yours safe and healthy. We recently shared information with our Board of Directors about disparities that…
Press Release: What Is Black History to Me? by Dr. William T. Lewis, Sr.
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a historian, and scholar, commonly known as the “father of black history,” developed Negro History Week, now known as Black History Month. Woodson believed “the achievements…