Sentences with phrase «hurt communities of color»

The program was developed from a growing consensus that the war on drugs has failed and that it has disproportionately and unjustly hurt communities of color.

While the dangers in Flint and Standing Rock eventually became major stories this year, they were not the only ones worthy of attention, and there are other environmental crises hurting communities of color that still need the support of media to amplify a harsh reality.

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On both a domestic and a global level, climate change hurts poor people and communities of color first and worst, so we seek solutions that center economic and racial justice as critical components of addressing climate change.

The result is a deeply irresponsible budget that hurts working people, communities of color, students, and women in New York State.»

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

At 10 a.m., AARP, the Asian American Federation, Hispanic Federation, NAACP and Urban League join Tony Award - winning actress Priscilla Lopez, Senator Jesse Hamilton and Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Yuh - Line Niou for launch of policy solutions agenda to address disparities in health, economic security and livability that are hurting New York state's communities of color; City University of New York Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

But while climate change hurts everyone, communities of color and low - income Americans are the hardest hit.

These barriers to care especially hurt people who already face inequities and barriers in the health care system — including people of color, people who live in rural areas, people with low incomes, and immigrant communities.

Those hurt most by this political attack will be patients who already face barriers to care, particularly people of color, people with low incomes, and people in rural communities.

These attacks hurt marginalized communities domestically and abroad — people of color, those who live in rural areas, those struggling to make ends meet in the U.S. and women and girls living in poverty in developing countries — the most.