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August 20, 2020
Changes Are Needed in the Health Care System to Meet the Needs of Black Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People
Skyler Rosellini and Abigail Coursolle california, Health Equity, SRH Health Equity
Throughout history, Black transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals have nurtured themselves and their communities. Black TGNC individuals have always been at the forefront of the movement for LGBTQ+ liberation and Black civil rights, including William Dorsey Swann and other early organizers of Drag Performances and Balls in the…
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August 18, 2020
On the Centennial of (White) Women’s Suffrage, Reproductive Health Injustice Persists
Madeline Morcelle Abortion, Health Equity
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and with it, White women’s suffrage. This day arrives amid a raging pandemic, global protests against White supremacy, and rampant reproductive health inequities. As a reproductive health attorney by day and voter protection volunteer by night, I…
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August 13, 2020
More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19
David Machledt Coronavirus, Health Equity
In early July, the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern part of Oklahoma remains Indian Country for the purposes of federal criminal law. Oklahoma argued that decades of federal and state incursions and violations of an 1833 treaty with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation effectively dissolved the tribe’s reservation. Five…
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August 11, 2020
The Effects of COVID-19 on America’s Hispanic and Latinx Communities
Miriam Delaney Heard california, Coronavirus, Health Equity, Immigrant Health
"Face challenges, fear, and frustration by seeking out knowledge and opportunities for growth."--Fanny MairenaCOVID-19 has plunged numerous nations into a public health emergency. To date, in the United States alone, there have been more than four million confirmed COVID -19 cases and more than 150,000 deaths have been attributed…
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August 10, 2020
Homelessness and Health in the Time of COVID-19
Hannah Eichner Coronavirus, Health Equity
Housing and health have always been inextricably linked– but never has that been more apparent than during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a time where a key prevention measure is to stay home, more than 500,000 people are experiencing homelessness and have no home to stay in.Due to the United…
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August 7, 2020
Black, Disabled, and Uncounted
Daniel Young Coronavirus, Disability, Health Equity
Black people with disabilities are in a health equity crisis in the United States that is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic — we just don’t know exactly how bad it is. Race and disability status expose Black people with disabilities to two separate sets of COVID-19 risks. Black people…
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Changes Are Needed in the Health Care System to Meet the Needs of Black Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People

On the Centennial of (White) Women’s Suffrage, Reproductive Health Injustice Persists

More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19

Homelessness and Health in the Time of COVID-19

Black, Disabled, and Uncounted

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Changes Are Needed in the Health Care System to Meet the Needs of Black Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People

On the Centennial of (White) Women’s Suffrage, Reproductive Health Injustice Persists

More Broken Promises? Native Americans Endure COVID-19

The Effects of COVID-19 on America’s Hispanic and Latinx Communities

Homelessness and Health in the Time of COVID-19

Black, Disabled, and Uncounted