Healthy Chicago 2025 is Chicago’s five-year community health improvement plan that focuses on racial and health equity. Launched September 17, 2020, the mission “is to create a city where all people and all communities have power, are free from oppression; and are str...
"This strategy of reducing traffic violence via a punitive approach - in this case, automatic enforcement - is one we wholesale do not support," said Olatunji Oboi Reed of theEquiticity Racial Equity Movement. Reed's organization advocates for an equitable, diverse, and inclusive bicycle culture ...
- The City of San Jose has appointed Zulma Maciel as the first Director of the Office of Racial Equity - a new office responsible for advancing citywide equity and addressing systemic racism. Previously, Macial was the city's director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, brin...
Inequality Matters: Diversity, Racial Equity and Participation in the CityYoung, Justin Robert
"The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation (DSS) takes the city's policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion seriously. DSS forwards all claims the department receives to the proper channels for investigation in a timely and respectful manner, as per city rules and regulations," spokeswom...
The rise of environmental justice In the midst of a pandemic and an uprising for racial equity,advocates for communities of color near industrial facilities seize the moment The killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis turned an already fraught year on its head.A news cycle stuck for mo...
“Per Scholas is proud to be part of Accelerate Chicago and has long been committed to closing the equity gap in technology by offering free IT training and connecting our graduates with technology jobs,” said Plinio Ayala, president and CEO of Per Scholas...
(b) Disproportionate effects alone are insufficient to establish a claim of unconstitutional racial vote dilution. Where the character of a law is readily explainable on grounds apart from race, as would nearly always be true where, as here, an entire system of local governance is brought into ...
It is, nevertheless, important to emphasize that even though cities have recently developed programs to advance racial equity exemplified in job training and the Government Alliance on Race and Equity national network initiatives, they have historically been complicit in producing racial inequalities and ...
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