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systemic oppression

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Health Cares

Systemic racism and inequality are at the forefront of a critical national discussion today, and when these issues intersect with health care, the stakes can be life and death. While there is still work to be done, issues of racial disparities in health care are beginning to be addressed...

Systemic racism and inequality are at the forefront of a critical national discussion today, and when these issues int...

Grace & Graves

Grace and Graves is inspired by tragedies that disguise themselves as normal, necessary and even warranted. It examines the convenience of forgiveness and memory with respect to racial symbols. Black Americans are haunted by bigoted perceptions. The statues of murderers gleam in the cent...

Grace and Graves is inspired by tragedies that disguise themselves as normal, necessary and even warranted. It examine...

Only Their Faces

I never understood what older people meant when they cried, “stop killing people who look like us!” Until now, I could never bring myself to echo those words. These faces constantly appearing on the news never looked like me. They never even look like each other. Each victim has thei...

I never understood what older people meant when they cried, “stop killing people who look like us!” Until now, I c...

The American Nightmare

The American Dream is an age-old concept that all Americans have equal opportunity to become successful. But the ideal tends to look past the racial disparities that have always plagued our nation for centuries and continue today. For some Black people, reality seems more like the Americ...

The American Dream is an age-old concept that all Americans have equal opportunity to become successful. But the ideal...