#Latinx

Ilhan Omar

IlhanMN

A thread of gratitude for those doing the heavy lifting in my district: Starting with @navigatemn. Led by immigrants, they’re building power for gender, racial and economic justice.https://www.givemn.org/organization/Navigatemn The work

Barbara Smith

nanaslugdiva

which do you think would have the biggest positive impact on US society? Follow-up q:To what degree do you think the existence of universal child care would prevent /address issues

femdot.

femdotdotcom

ok boom so some context on that new rona stopper that pfizer & biontech dropped. this might be long, bare w/ me. for the sake of tweets lets call it

Nithya Raman

nithyavraman

In the aftermath of another heat wave, it's worth talking about trees.Trees play a big role in mitigating heat. But about 1/5th of LA’s tree canopy is found in just

Kelly Stevens

kellystevenslab

@NIH R01’s from White scientists are funded at ~twice the award rate as Black scientists.@NIH has known this for a decade. It has not been fixed.@nihdirector #fundblackscientistsRead our @Cellcellpress paper,

Nida Qadir, MD

NidaQadirMD

Heart-breaking, chilling, horrifying...pick your adjective. #COVID19 has amplified every socioeconomic & racial disparity that exists in healthcare & beyond. The distance b/w MLK & Ronald Reagan hospitals is only 20

igorvolsky

igorvolsky

This is such BSThe storming of the Capitol was just the latest in a long line of examples in which Trump's supporters took him LITERALLY. At least 87 ppl were

Ali Khan, MD, MPP

alikhan28

As @Eugenia_South underscores, #HealthEquity isn’t hard, but it does take intentional work to overcome the inequitable inertia of the status quo. This weekend in Chicago, our @OakStreetHealth team vaccinated 2000

go_laaunch

go_laaunch

Today is a great day to start crushing anti-Asian racism. We compiled this thread to get you started. Please share it widely with your family, friends, and colleagues. Let’s build

End Police Violence Collective

endpolviolence

We're catching up on @RVPHTC, @wcpublichealth, & @umichsph's webinar "Policing as a Public Health Issue" featuring @FlemingPaulJ, @mariatho1, & Jimena Loveluck. If you missed it, you can watch it with

Whitney Weirick

WhitneysWave

#CogswellMacyAct will uphold the civil rights of American students w sensory disabilities by protecting their access to free appropriate public ed 1/@DB_Coalition @ceasd1868 @NAD1880 @AFB1921 @ClercCenter @GallaudetU @RITNTID @NAOBIDC @Jann

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

This morning DOL released some of the first economic data of the Biden presidency—last week's initial unemployment insurance claims (okay, *half* of last week was in the Biden presidency). What

Paul Franz

Paul_Franz

This op-ed is a great example of the wrong-headed scientism of school-must-open-now advocates.A thread.https://www.vox.com/2021/2/15/22280763/kids-covid-vaccine-teachers-unions-schools-reopening-cdc The article starts with a gesture towards

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

This conversation about patient-physician concordance (matching by race, specifically) is making me think about the continued importance of social & political factors as contributors to overall health & well-being. Here's

AERA Division L

Division_L

As we consider our current social and political climate, education policy scholars can contribute to the conversation about race, schooling, & policing by elevating existing research that informs debate and

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 853,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 428,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The

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