Prior Themes

Racial Disparities in Health Status By Ruqaiijah Yearby

This longer essay by Ruqaiijah Yearby addresses the continuing inequalities and “structural racism [that] prevents African Americans from obtaining equal access to resources such as wealth, employment, income, and healthcare, resulting in racial disparities in health.”

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The Missing Pieces of America's Education By Joe Heim

This article by Joe Heim of The Washington Post brings together five noted historians to discuss the ways that “aspects of slavery are misunderstood, poorly taught, or not covered at all” in classrooms. The responses from historians address the whitewashing of textbooks and invite discussion of the ways that all academic disciplines support systemic racism.

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The Birth of American Music By Nikole Hannah-Jones

This podcast is episode three in The New York Times’1619 audio series. The series is named for the year in which the first enslaved Africans were brought to American and the damage and violence  250 years of slavery that followed. This episode is described thus: “America heard the sound of complete artistic freedom in black music, and then claimed that music as its own. ‘And that’s ironic,’ Wesley Morris tells us. ‘Because this is the sound of a people who, for decades and centuries, have been denied freedom.’

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Call to Action

• Do Something about Racial Justice and Equity
• Global Oneness Project: Indigenous Cultures
• Talking about Race: I am a Person Committed to Equity

Towards Greater Understanding of the Issues

• The Origin of Race in the USA 
• Let's Get to the Root of Racial Injustice 
• Walking While Black
• How to be an Ally