In countries and communities around the world there are organizers, leaders, and experts who are working to remove the barriers to health that are rooted in racism and structural discrimination. They ...
On July 14, 1970, approximately 150 members of the Young Lords executed the first of a series of occupations of Lincoln Hospital, an academic health center in the Bronx. Disenchanted with the care ...
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible—often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems ...
Inside the walls of Massachusetts Committing Institution Framingham, a medium security correctional facility for women offenders, 22 miles west of Boston. Structural racism is rampant in the state’s ...