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Equity in Action: How Communities Can Drive Implementation of Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis

  • The Praxis Project (map)

Join the Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity (CARE) for a webinar on the work being done to support and address the role of community declarations of racism as a public health crisis. Presenters—including Catherine Labiran, program manager for research and training for The Praxis Project—will discuss key topics such as:

  • Barriers to achieving racial equity

  • How governmental programs to achieve racial equity comply with the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Community involvement in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and identifying opportunities for community to be authentically centered in political processes

  • Limitations and opportunities for narrative change in news coverage of policy efforts to declare racism a public health crisis

  • The history of declarations and their role in public health

  • APHA’s racism declarations tracking map

Other presenters include: