15 states, counties and municipalities are the vanguards of Racial Equity during this Covid-19 crisis by creating official Racial/Health Equity Rapid Response Teams; #racialequity #alleyesonequity (as of May 13th 2020) King County WA (March 6)State of Virginia (March 13)City of Chicago (April 6th)City of Boston (April 9th )State of Michigan […]
Racial Equity is ensuring all Americans can access the opportunity to survive and thrive in states, cities and counties across the nation. The current Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines in our land of equal opportunity. Not everyone has equal access to the social determinants of health and wealth. […]
We know viruses don’t discriminate right , or do they? What if viruses could apply the management concept of strategic planning? If so, the key goals of Covid-19 would be to spread, replicate and kill expeditiously. And if that’s the case, race and ethnicity should not matter. But, if Covid […]
In Chicago 70% of Covid deaths were black residents while Blacks make up 29% of the population. “We already know that before COVID was ever established that the health outcomes for various communities are already different,” she said. “So if you know those disparities exist in terms of health outcomes, […]
Banking institutions should apply an “Equity Eye” to ensure their policies, practices and procedures are not contributing to community inequity and perpetuating racially disparate outcomes as they distribute SBA Covid Relief Loans.
According to the 2018 McKinsey Report, “Delivering through Diversity,” the consulting firm discovered that the more diverse (defined as a greater proportion of women and racially ethnic make up in the leadership of large companies) the executive team, the better their financial performance. The methodology of the study included analyzing […]
Racial inequities did not occur by accident. Instead they were deliberately created and sustained over time, and their compounding and reinforcing effects evolved into a systemic process of allocating resources to one racial group, over other racial groups. Unfortunately, these inequities will not close or disappear naturally. Research driven tools […]