#Disparities

NPMP

npolicemonitor

For our second day on Taser, following the @ResLabMCR report, we are highlighting racial disparities in Taser usage. There are significant racial disparities in use of Taser that reflect institutionally

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Let this sink in—Black Americans are 1.4x more likely to get #COVID19 & 2.8x more likely to die, than Whites.But in Florida—5.5% of Whites got at least 1 vaccine dose

Danilo Leandro Trisi

TrisiDanilo

If you’re interested in long-term poverty trends by race & ethnicity, check out our new paper.Govt policies reduced poverty substantially over the last 5 decades, but more needs to be

IndianHealthService

IHSgov

A new report in @CDCMMWR shows that rates of #COVID19 were 3.5 times higher among American Indian and Alaska Native populations compared to non-Hispanic white people in the first six

Elizabeth Warren

SenWarren

President-elect Biden has already committed to reentering the Paris Climate Accord, reinstating DACA, and ending the travel ban against certain Muslim countries. But there are lots of big changes that

Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH

pre_rad

#DNRTulane To #MedTwitter - If Dr. Dennar's story isn't immediately recognizable to you, it means that 1) you don't actually know any Black people well enough to be trusted with

NYClimate

NYClimate

Did you know in 2017, NYC became the first city to formally introduce environmental justice into city decision making? Local Laws 60 & 64 establish an agency taskforce & independent

Grits for Breakfast

Grits4Breakfast

Texas cop unions have put out a website to oppose police reform called Texas Police Facts. But the "facts" presented are mostly either anodyne distractions or pretty brazenly misrepresented.https://texaspolicefacts.com/ Citi

@ia4phs

ia4phs

I know that the COVID-19 vaccine is on everyone's radar. I'll get to that in a moment, but I want to take the time to highlight some of the significant

Aaron Sibarium

aaronsibarium

I did a deep dive into the ethical framework the CDC used to justify vaccinating essential workers before the elderly, even though the CDC's own models showed that this would

Center for Reproductive Rights

ReproRights

The United States is experiencing a maternal health crisis that disproportionately impacts Black and Indigenous women. With the highest maternal mortality ratio in the developed world, the U.S. is 1

Andre M. Perry

andreperryedu

Trump & the #GOP's attacks on objective truth & science aren't novel. Racism, which transcends political party, has been a symptom & cause of these affronts. Race itself was shaped

🇵🇷Elaine Gómez🇩🇴

chulatastic

Currently in a digital conference. A speaker mentioned that we need to make diversity and inclusion pillars of our work places because diversity programs and initiatives have a common thread

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

From the historian Tony Judt before he died of ALS in 2010: “Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue

Paul #JusticeForBreonna

pedsturgeon

Why I don't believe in honors for 3rd year clerkships and advocate for P/F and also getting rid of AOA: a short thread During an ice breaker on favorite

+RC #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor

thebexbecbecca

I keep seeing priests tweeting a version of this and I just don’t think Christians understand how deeply hurtful this false equivalency is to other Black Catholics + Christians, especially

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