The nonprofit, founded in 2020, offers a delivery service for essential baby items, as well as educational programming, workshops, support groups, and connection to resources for Long Beach mothers.
A 136-page progress report on the Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative makes clear that while there have been some small successes, major challenges remain, including racism within the city itself that has exhausted many staffers tasked with making the initiative a reality, leaving them “experiencing burnout and feeling unsupported.”
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:50 – “Framework for Racial Reconciliation.” If that’s a phrase you’ve heard before you are way ahead of a lot of people. But now here is a bigger question, what does that mean? Following the murder of George Floyd on On May 25, 2020, Long Beach and other cities vowed to implement racial justice reforms. In August 2020, the city approved a reconciliation plan, which included promises to invest more in community groups and less in police, and make changes to the way the city recruits, retains and hires employees. Today we’re joined by April Parker of the Black Health Equity Collaborative, which has also been asking the same question as us: What has been done in the past year to implement this plan?