Sentences with phrase «on communities of color»

What's more, blocking patients from care at health centers has a disproportionate impact on communities of color — who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.

Combined, these are blatant attacks on communities of color across the country.

This act would allow legislators to consider the ramifications of potential policies on communities of color to inform their decision making.

Indeed, many of us have taken great pains to highlight the racially disparate impact of corporate education reforms, especially high - stakes standardized testing, specifically on communities of color.

The funding cuts have also had a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

The brief underscores the importance of engaging low - income parents in developing solutions to address their needs, focusing on communities of color which are disproportionately impacted by poverty, and creating partnerships between government, businesses and faith - based institutions.

A top - down union that fails to address broader problems rooted in class and racial inequality and whose capitulation on major issues (as identified in planks 1 - 4 of this document) has had a disproportionately negative effect on communities of color and those who live in poverty.

The executive order will restore the right to vote upon release from incarceration, his office said, citing a disproportionate impact of disenfranchisement on communities of color and links between civic engagement and reduced recidivism.

A Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission to assess the impact of the war on drugs and mass incarceration, particularly on communities of color, and recommend policies to repair the damages.

Worse still, those who impose this devastation on communities of color against their will cynically don the cloak of Brown.

But Duncan's «white suburban moms» comment and the resulting media coverage — portraying this as another inelegant choice of words by a bumbling cabinet official — obscured two essential facts: The high - stakes standardized testing attack has always exacted the highest toll on communities of color.

Things Get Lost by Michaela Pilar Brown Identity Politics, Imagined Histories, and Black Womanhood December 9, 2016 — January 28, 2017 Identity politics have taken on renewed importance the past few years with the polarizing presidential election and increased mainstream awareness of institutionalized violence on communities of color.

The groups say federal and state agencies discriminated on the basis of race and color because they failed to assess the disproportionate impacts of the proposed ACP on communities of color as required under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

«We see AOCC 2015 as a safe space to share the many personal, untold stories with hopes of educating others in an effort to build a stronger foundation for supporting work that will have a positive impact on communities of color across the country,» says one of the tri-chairs, Ed.L.D.

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

The Advancement Project (2010) echoes Au's assessment: not only has high - stakes testing failed to close the achievement gap, this «test and punish approach» has had devastating effects on communities of color and low - income students.

«They have had a devastatingly disproportionate impact on communities of color, especially black and Latino men.»

Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy told Observer that universal pre-K, a drop in the use of stop - and - frisk policing and First Lady Chirlane McCray's focus on mental health issues have had a «real positive impact» on communities of color.

At 9 a.m., the Partnership for the Public Good will release a report highlighting marijuana prohibition enforcement practices in Buffalo and their disparate impact on communities of color, Overflow Cafeteria at ECMC, 462 Grider St., Buffalo.

We've come a long way but there are still inequities in our approach to policing and Mr. de Blasio can not ignore the impact «Stop, Question, and Frisk» has on communities of color.

«I don't see how you can call yourself someone progressive, the leader of the City of New York, and not come out or at least consider the prospect of legalizing marijuana, given the adverse impacts on communities of color,» James said.

This past Saturday in New Haven, CT, the NAACP started its series of hearings on charter schools and their impact on communities of color.

This can have the effect of steering homeowners into unfavorable mortgages based on where they live, which has a disparate impact on communities of color.

They argue that I - 732 doesn't adequately take into consideration the disproportionate impact climate change has on communities of color and low - income people, and in fact didn't really include historically underrepresented populations in the crafting of the initiative at all.

The report is a joint production of NAACP, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), the Indigenous Environmental Network and lead author and researcher Adrian Wilson, and will serve as a launching point for NAACP's campaign to address the issue of the pollution from coal fired power plants and disparate impacts on communities of color.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

This often has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care — as National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, In Our Own Voice, and other Reproductive Justice organizations have demonstrated.

Blocking patients from care at health centers has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.

Cases of breast and cervical cancer are also on the rise, with an alarmingly disproportionate impact on communities of color.

It also has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care — as National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, In Our Own Voice, and other Reproductive Justice organizations have demonstrated.

Breast and cervical cancer is also on the rise, with a disproportionate impact on communities of color: a 0.3 percent increase among white women, a 6.6 increase among Black women, and an alarming 25.1 increase among Latinas.

Since 2009, there has been a 35 percent increase in cases of bacterial STDs and an increase in breast and cervical cancer cases, with a disproportionate impact on communities of color, including an alarming 25.1 percent increase among Latinas.

Now, New Jersey faces public health crises: a 35 percent increase in cases of bacterial STDs since 2009, and an increase in breast and cervical cancer cases with a disproportionate impact on communities of color, including an alarming 25.1 percent increase in Latinas — but the Christie administration has busily found reasons to downplay these alarming statistics.

Blocking access to reproductive health care has real and disastrous consequences for all people and often has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.

There has been a 35 percent increase in cases of bacterial sexually transmitted diseases since 2009 and an increase in breast and cervical cancer cases with a disproportionate impact on communities of color, including an alarming 25.1 percent increase among Latinas.

It also has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care

Since 2009, there has been a 35 percent increase in cases of bacterial STDs, and an increase in breast and cervical cancer cases with a disproportionate impact on communities of color.