By: Sherry D. Molock, Ph.D., Siobhonn Job, MA & Alana Rule, MA Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disproportionately affects Black Americans in the United States (US), with Black people dying at a rate over two times higher than white people and […]
Across the nation, people of color in general and African Americans specifically are far more likely to encounter the criminal justice system than the general population. In fact, people of color account for nearly 60% of the incarcerated population, with every 1 in 15 African American men being impacted. This […]
By: Kevin Cokley, Ph.D. | University of Michigan During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Urban League commissioned a multi-racial needs assessment research study to examine disparities among four priority communities of color (COC): Black (African American, Caribbean American, Afro-Latinx, African immigrant), Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and Native […]
By: Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, PhD | @lassiterhealth I grew up in a religious tradition that taught me that what the enemy meant for your bad, god will use for your good. This cultural wisdom has its roots beyond the Christian church in which I was reared and links to ancient African […]
