by Press | Apr 20, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Eight people were shot and killed at an Indianapolis FedEx facility last week by a former employee. Four of the eight victims belonged to the Sikh religious community. The attack in Indiana’s state capital, also the third largest city in the...
by Press | Apr 17, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – This past week, Daunte Wright was shot and killed in Minneapolis, and in Chicago police released the footage of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. These events also come on the heels of the Derek Chauvin trial, and recently...
by Press | Apr 16, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Residents in the Chesapeake Detention Facility (CDF) in downtown Baltimore, will now have safer and humane protections from COVID-19 outbreaks after over a year of CDF and Maryland public officials refusing to enact them, thanks to a...
by Press | 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 Press | 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...
