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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

Class, race, and ethnicity are key determinants of exposure to pollution and other environmental hazards, with working-class people and BIPOC folks disproportionately exposed relative to affluent White people. And air pollution exposure in children can cause asthma, obesity, cancer, cognitive delay, and other challenges.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

While race is a social construct that serves as a poor predictor of genetic variation, racial parity in genomic data is important because race serves as a proxy for population descriptors and other, more appropriate genetic ancestry labels.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

A sustained peace of mind comes from the stability of a good job, knowing that your children are safe, knowing that you are not going to lose your home. Rest and race are intertwined, and it all boils down to who has the right to rest and under what conditions rest and leisure should be granted. Rest Is An Act of Core Health.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

A few years later, I worked as a minority health coordinator, focusing on racial and ethnic minority populations in Rhode Island—on people like me, who come here with dreams and hopes to do better but often find themselves without the resources or opportunities they need. Voice , because government has an obligation to listen to residents.

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Protecting Nonprofits That Protect Us During Crises—and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? Disaggregating by race allowed us to do a meaningful comparison when answering questions like, “Did organizations have the resources to meet changed community needs?

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.” The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women. 11 (2022):12351–58.