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What is the Historical Context of Racial Disparities?
How and why did criminal justice disparities happen? https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/black-codes-and-pig-laws/ How and why did unequal access to fair housing happen? Based on The Color of Law, and <20 minutes.: Segregated By Design
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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal is not an Isolated Affair; But it Prompted the Beginnings of A Movement to Save the Earth. The Creation of the EPA Was One of these Beginnings
Premiered April 22 at 9PM ET on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App- Offers important lessons we need today. Poisoned Ground chronicles the story of Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where residents discovered their homes were built on a toxic chemical waste dump, leading to health crises. The documentary highlights how ordinary women…
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All are One, Be Alike to Everyone, SSB
Why do racial profiling and racial disparities continue? African Americans make up 13 percent of the general population, but more than 40 percent of the homeless population (National Alliance to End Homelessness) Homelessness adds to the risks of incarceration contributing to Black youth facing an 83% increased risk than their white peers (National Network for…
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National Delegates of Frontline Leaders Seek Solutions to Water Contamination in their Communities
Frontline leaders from across the Nation met with National leaders and government officials to ask why hazardous wastes is allowed to pollute their waters and jeopardize lives. Equitable access to clean, safe water is a human and civil right. They need to know what are the plans to comply? They have had enough. Clean and…
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Water Week is Near – Week of April 8
The access to clean drinking water is a civil right, yet communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the lack of this access. What can be done to rectify this?
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Housing is a Human and Civil Right
What will it take to actualize this? Johnson vs Grants Pass..Do homeless have the right to survival?
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National Week of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation 2024
Choices Interlinking is pleased to co-sponsor a dialogue in honor of The National Week of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, beginning Jan 14, 2024. This year’s local theme is Racial Healing, Transformation, and the Belief in You. This theme challenges assumptions that racial hierarchies are the norm. The dialogue will center the voices of historically…