by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog
Although racial health disparities have been widely-recognized throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Black women have shouldered the brunt of systemic inequities in health care for centuries. As highlighted during this month’s Black Maternal Health Week — a campaign...
by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 13, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge advanced a proposal Tuesday to reinstate the Department’s 2013 disparate impact rule, as well as an interim final rule that would reassert the federal government’s commitment to affirmatively...
by Natasha Mundkur | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Evictions and limited housing access can affect a renter’s housing options for the rest of their life, especially during a pandemic. While the number of evictions in Minnesota has marginally decreased, close to 16,000 evictions are filed across the state every year....
by Natasha Mundkur | Mar 31, 2021 | Blog
It is something many have received in the mail, seen on tv, or even heard during a phone call: “Fill out your 2020 Census today!” The census counts the entire U.S. population once every decade. From the first census count with no privacy protections in...
by Natasha Mundkur | Mar 30, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The lack of adequate recording and public dissemination of race and ethnicity data related to COVID-19 has contributed to disparate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color, a letter from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to the...