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Center For Disease Control Officially Declares Racism A ‘Serious Public Health Threat’
Director Rochelle Walensky has singled out racism for having a “profound and negative impact on communities of color.”
Published 9 hours ago
Written by Angela Wilson
In Captain Obvious news, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared racism a public health threat that disproportionately affects communities of color.
NBC News reports it s the latest and largest federal U.S. health agency to single out racism and it s damning consequences on American society.
In a statement released on Thursday (April 8), CDC Director
Dr. Rochelle Walensky explained how systematic racism should be recognized as a public health crisis.
He’s filing a lawsuit.
Published 2 weeks ago
Written by Paul Meara
A Black electrical worker is filing a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit after he says he was fired for reporting a noose he found on a job site.
Stevie Lamont Stuckes, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday (March 9), alleges that in his nearly three-year tenure at Pike Electric which is headquartered in Mt. Airy, North Carolina he was exposed to a workplace culture full of “racially charged jokes” and racist slurs.
James Banner, the senior vice president of administration at the company, told the
Charlotte Observer in a statement that Pike “takes these allegations very seriously and took immediate action at the time to address the incident.”