Racial Equity

Articles

• America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us
  • Atlantic article looking at COVID and health disparities in the US
• A call to action for white people: Reflect and act
  • Masslive article outlining health inequities that are caused by structural racism, some steps which can be taken to mitigate them
• Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life
  • Teen Vogue article looking at how to integrate anti-racism into your daily life
• How you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
  • TED article outlining ways you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
• Talking about Disparities: The Effect of Frame Choices on Support for Race-Based Policies
  • A FrameWorks Institute Message Brief exploring how can we talk about disparities in ways that prompt people to rethink assumptions, acknowledge the root causes of racial disparities, and support equity-focused policies
• Springfield Health Equity Report: Looking at Health through Race and Ethnicity (2019)
  • Report that examines social and economic factors that impact health among communities of color in Springfield and the resulting health inequities.
• Teaching Tolerance: Let's Talk: Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students
  • Guide for educators on how to facilitate conversations about race
• The Conversation: Tips on having a Conversation about Race
  • Guide on how to have difficult conversations about race​​​
• The Intersectionality Wars
  • Vox article looking at intersectionality as a framework and its consequences
• Mental Health Inequities Among Springfield Eighth Grade Students: Findings from the 2019 Youth Health Survey
  • Report that examines mental health risk factors and outcomes experienced by Springfield teens as a whole and by race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives
  • 50 min video of a panel discussion on Black Feminism and the Movement for Black Lives
• Improving Health Equity, Beating the Odds
  • ​​​​​​​ Dr. Anthony Iton speaks at the Springfield Public Forum on how race, class, wealth, education, geography, and employment impact public health?
• Lets stop talking about diversity and start working towards equity
  • 15 minute TEDx by Paloma Medina which challenges our paradigm of diversity and the concept of diversity vs. equity

• Momentum: A Race Forward
  • Podcast looking at racism, research, and social justice, featuring movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice
• Pod For The Cause
  • Podcast from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights​'s which discusses civil & human rights to spark positive change

• Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms
  • Book by a team of authors for childhood educators to combat racism in their classrooms
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  • Book by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi dedicated to describing how to be an anti-racist
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You by Jason Reynolds
  • Book by Jason Reynolds which delves into the current state of race and racism and what can be done about it

• 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
  • 21 day guided challenge on practices that we should implement into our daily lives 
• 106 things that white people can do for racial justice
  • List of 106 things white people can do to help bring about greater racial justice
• American Public Health Association
  • Webpage with resources on Racism and Health
• Accomplice Resources
  • Website with the actor, ally, accomplice framework, and action steps
• BLAC
  • Organization focusing on uplifting Black educators and administrators
• Health Equity Guide, A Human Impact Partners Project

  • HealthEquityGuide.org is a resource with inspiring examples of how health departments have concretely advanced health equity — both internally within their departments and externally with communities and other government agencies.

• Racial Equity Institute
  • Organization that does trainings as well as maintain a resource bank
• Racial Equity Tools
  • Website dedicated to compiling tools and resources related to anti-racism
• ReThinking Racism For Racial & Social Justice
  • Workshop examining the imposition of individual, institutional, and cultural ideology that leads to systemic racism and provides a basis for taking action
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • The RWJF webpage which focuses racism's impact on health; resources, articles, and grant funding opportunities
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
  • Organization dedicated to working towards a world where every community has what they need to thrive and assists with organizing people to show up for racial justice
• Springfield Youth Health Survey Interactive Data Portal
  • Interactive data portal that allows user to explore and visualize findings from the Springfield Youth Health Survey by race and sex.
• The Structural Racism Remedies Repository
  • This is a repository of policy-based recommendations for addressing structural and systemic racism or advancing racial equity drawn from a vast array of published material, from the University of California, Berkeley, Othering and Belonging Institute.
• Undoing Racism Organizing Collective
  • Organization that does trainings as well as maintains a resource bank
• White Supremacy Culture
  • Website dedicated to understanding, dismantling, and divorcing white supremacy culture by sharing information, resources, articles, and stories

Putting Resources into Practice: A Race and Health Equity Blog

"...ensure every corner of our city is strongly represented."

Learn how Joshua A. Garcia, Mayor of Holyoke, is using resources in our Race and Health Equity Resource Guide.

"Don't look away!"

Read what Nikki Burnett, Executive Director at Educare Springfield, has to say about PHIWM's Race and Health Equity Resource Guide.