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Events
Education
Interviews
Articles
Books
Advocacy
Videos
EVENTS
Social Justice Research Forum – April 29-30, 2021 – Recorded Panels:
Panel #1 | A Gender-Responsive Approach to Corrections During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Panel #2 | Developing a Shared Vision for Equity-Centered Education and Health Research
Panel #3 | Praying With Your Feet: A Town/Gown Social Justice Internship Model both Within and Beyond University Walls
Panel #4 | Truth and Reconciliation: Addressing Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement
Panel #5 | A Critical Review of College Presidents’ Responses to the Murder of George Floyd
Panel #6 | Frontline Community Partnerships for Climate Justice: Co-designing Locally-led Equitable Pathways to Community Health – recording coming soon
Panel #7 | Shades of Grey: Exploring Racial Disproportionality in Hospital Security Events
Free Webinar – Tuesday, May 18th, 2021, 2-3 p.m. CDT
Inadequate Outcomes: The Crisis of Health Inequity
May 11, 2021 | 9am-4pm Central – Niganawenimaanaanig Indigenous Nursing Conference – FREE one day zoom event!
Registration
Spring 2021 Newsletter
May 11, 2021 | 3:00 to 4:30 pm ET – Future of Nursing 2020-2030 – Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity – Report Release Webinar
Register
Read the Report
The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation– Recorded APHA Webinars:
Webinar #1 | Naming and Addressing Racism: A Primer
Webinar #2 | No Safety, No Health: A Conversation About Race, Place and Preventing Violence
Webinar #3 | Unequal Treatment: Disparities in Access, Quality and Care
Webinar #4 | Racism: The Silent Partner in High School Dropout and Health Disparities
Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series– Recorded APHA Webinars:
Webinar #1 | Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition
Webinar #2 | A Path to Reproductive Justice: Research, Practice and Policies
Webinar #3 | Reborn Not Reformed: Re-Imagining Policing for the Public’s Health
Webinar #4 | Racial Healing for Ourselves, Our Communities and Our Future
Webinar #5 | Housing is a Human Right
Webinar #6 | Mobilizing Public Health to Achieve Environmental Justice
July 24, 2020, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET – Pain-demic Congressional Briefing: “The Pain-demic: Fallout from COVID-19 Solutions for Our Worsening Opioid Crisis and the Rising Impact of HealthCare Disparities”
Webinar: Sept. 10, 2020 (video available) Traditional Mesoamerican Medicine for Healing Trauma – Master Class Series – Pacific College
October 14, 2020, 11:00 am – 3:30 pm ET –
Advancing Health Equity Science, Practice & Outcomes The National Academy of Medicine Culture of Health Program will host a public meeting to examine gaps, barriers, priorities, and opportunities for decision-makers advancing health equity through policy.
Conversations Around The Table: AntiRacism in Health Care – Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:00 PM (EST)
Anti-Racism I
– University of Colorado Boulder – Online – Starts Nov 17, 2020 – Free
Online videocast – Wednesday, December 9, 2020 – All Health Is Not Created Equal: Where You Live Matters
– National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) 2020 Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Shannon Zenk, Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Health Care This will be a hybrid course consisting of a 2-hour online class via Zoom followed by a 1-hour home study that can be completed on the same day for a total of 3 hours of continuing education credits.
Note: This class is frequently scheduled back-to-back with the class Queering Care: Ensuring LGBTQI+ Equity in Delivery of Nursing Care. Nurses interested in registering for both classes can receive up to 7 credits if taken on the same day. – Online – January 7, 12, 28, February 3, 12, 23, 2021
Queering Care: Ensuring LGBTQI+ Equity in Delivery of Nursing Care This will be a 3-hour online class via Zoom for 3 hours of continuing education credits.
Note: This class is frequently scheduled back-to-back with the class Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Health Care. Nurses interested in registering for both classes can receive up to 7 credits if taken on the same day.
– Online – January 7, 12, 28, February 3, 12, 23, 2021
EDUCATION
Free CE: The Effects of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health – Hosted by PNCB
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
TMI Consulting – provides diversity and inclusion consulting services to corporations, churches, and universities – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Center for the Healing of Racism – organization that facilitates the healing of racism through education and dialogue in a safe and supportive environment, in order to empower individuals and transform communities
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Visit the ‘National Museum and Memorial for Peace and Justice’ – a museum (From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration) and memorial (Dedicated to the History of Lynching) in Alabama, situated on a site in Montgomery where enslaved people were once warehoused. A block from one of the most prominent slave auction spaces in America, the Legacy Museum is steps away from an Alabama dock and rail station where tens of thousands of black people were trafficked during the 19th century. – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
INTERVIEWS
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Episode 2 with Matthew McConauhghey
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Episode 3 with Chip & Joanna Gaines + kids
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Episode 4
White Parents, Raising Black Children – Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Ep. 6
Race vs Religion – Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep. 7 – w/ Carl Lentz, Hillsong Church
National Anthem Protests Part.1 featuring Roger Goodell | Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep 8
National Anthem Protests Part.2 featuring Roger Goodell | Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep 8
A Conversation with the Police
| Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep 9
Karens & Cancel Culture w/ Chelsea Handler
| Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Ep 10
ARTICLES
Why Nursing Can Be a Great Career Choice for Men – by Gabriel Patel
Medical Racism: Alive and Well
– Texas Nurses Association
Practice Tip of the Week:
COVID-19 Shines a Light on Racial Inequalities
– Texas Nurses Association
I Wish I Had a Black Friend. How Can I Get One?
Time Magazine
America’s Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism
– Shared by: George Goodman, past AHNCC Board of Directors member
COVID-19: Addressing Health Disparities & The Important Role of the Nurse Coach
The Chronic Stress of Being Black in the U.S. Makes People More Vulnerable to COVID-19 and Other Diseases
– Racism is a chronic, uncontrollable, and unpredictable stress that can wreak havoc on the mind and body.
Guided Meditations Translated to Spanish by Integrative Nurse Coach Caroline Ortiz
Unnatural Causes:
Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
– PBS documentary series – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Unshared Bounty:
How Structural Racism Contributes to the Creation and Persistence of Food Deserts by the New York Law School Racial Justice Project
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
The Somatic Experience of White Privilege: A Dance/Movement Therapy Approach to Racialized Interactions
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Beyond the Barriers: Racial Discrimination and Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among Black Americans
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Racial Equity Tools – a website designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. A good place to start within Racial Equity’s Toolbox :
Core Concepts ,
Understanding the System of Racial Inequity ,
Glossary of Race Equity Terms ,
Implicit Bias ,
Racial Reconciliation and Racial Healing
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Ibram X. Kendi Keynote:
“The Unloaded Guns of Racial Violence”
American University
Seeds of Change – AU’s New Antiracist Research and Policy Center
Racism, Social Justice, and Nurses – posted on Off the Charts, blog of the American Journal of Nursing
Remembering Vivian Strong: Life Lessons and the Omaha Race Riots of 1969… by Courtney Allen-Gentry RN, MSN, PHN, AHN-BC
‘Anti-Racism Resources’ Compiled by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning about Race and Racism through Storytelling and the Arts – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
White Paper: Equity, Achievement and Thriving in Nursing Education – National Education Progression in Nursing
YES! Magazine My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest – Shared by: Elicia Baker-Rogers, Integrative Health Nurse-DNP, RN, COHN-S, AHN-BC, CCM, LMT, BCTMB, ADS
YES! Magazine Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching “It”
Healing Our Nation : Addressing Systemic Trauma with Communities of Color
– A Joint Letter from the USA Integrative and Mental Health Community
The Role of Nurses as Allies Against Racism and Discrimination – An Analysis of Key Resistance Movements of Our Time
On Being:
Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence – An interview by Krista Tippett of Resmaa Menakem, a therapist and trauma specialist. He helps explain why vulnerabilities and inequities laid bare by the pandemic have fallen hardest on Black bodies. He illuminates why all of the best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near healing. – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
On Being:
Race and Healing, A Body Practice – Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” “Your body — all of our bodies — are where changing the status quo must begin.”
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
King’s challenge to the nation’s social scientists, speech at APA’s Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., September, 1967
What the protests demand of our leaders
Increase your awareness in the role you play in systemic racism. Daily effects of white privilege: “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”.
Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Racism
When the World is White by Mary L. Wilby, MSN, RN, CRNP, PhD (c) | International Journal for Human Caring (2009, Vol. 13, No. 4)
BOOKS
Dismantling Racism – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
by Anneliese A. Singh
Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities: Promoting Equity and Culturally Responsive Care across Settings
by Monnica Williams and Daniel Rosen
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
by Rhonda Magee and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Medical Apartheid
by Harriet A. Washington
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America by Dr. Otis Brawley
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation
by Thomas DeWolf
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
by Anthony Ryan Hatch (Author)
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
by Dr. Joy Degruy
Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional (ebook available through the American Public Health Association)
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
ADVOCACY
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Donate – Black Lives Matter
WE ARE DONE DYING NAACP
Dismantle Collective – an all person of color group whose goal is to name, disrupt, and dismantle white supremacy:
White Allyship 101: Resources to Get to Work – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
VIDEOS
Dakota 38 – Trailer and Full Movie – In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862.
Racism and Health – American Public Health Association
AVENUE Q – ‘Everybody’s a Little Racist’ Broadway Cast
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD? – AJ+ Opinion
Dr. Maya Angelou on Embracing Our Diversity. | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN
Wuauquikuna Concert “We are representing the prophecies from our elders and it is related to join together two cultures just like the Eagle from the North and the Condor from the South are sharing the same sky. It will be our future when people from all tribes and cultures comes together as one.” – https://www.wuauquikuna-official.com/
Therapy for Black Girls: Session 134 (The Impact of Racial Trauma)
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
Therapy for Black Girls: Session 146 (The Challenges of Black Women Physicians)
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
#unsilencedpast with Professors Maboula Soumahoro and Mame-Fatou Niang – #3
#unsilencedpast with Professors Martha Jones and Jessica Marie Johnson – #4
Nursing’s Role in Health Equity, Public Health Emergencies, and COVID-19 – Critical Issues for The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Webinar Recording Available!
TEDx Talks:
Rx Racial Healing, Dr. Gail Christopher
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
“——, You Ain’t Black!” Six Race Related Challenges Facing Biracial Americans
(warning, language may be offensive to some)
Traditional Mesoamerican Medicine for Healing Trauma with Caroline E. Ortiz, MSN, MPH, RN, NC-BC, and Robert Vetter, Anthropologist and Curandero (healer of the Mesoamerican tradition)
NASEM workshop on Children and Youth in Disasters
Collective Healing Action: Learning From Indigenous Wisdom
Panelists: Nonty Charity Sabic, Vikas P. Srivastava & Tasreen Khamisa
Facilitator: Shamini Jain, PhD
Hosted By: The Consciousness and Healing Initiative
Imagine Dragons – Love (music video)
Dr. Gail Christopher –
Racial Healing (longer version)
– Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
13th Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
CNN – This haunting song features the last words of unarmed black men titled “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.”
Sharing the mic with an amazing black holistic nurse, Courtney Allen-Gentry, my beloved’s birthday. Love never dies
Toni Morrison Beautifully Answers an “Illegitimate” Question on Race
(Jan. 19, 1998) | Charlie Rose
The Gardener’s Tale
, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones,a family physician and epidemiologist by training, Dr. Jones’ lifelong passion has been naming and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and wellbeing of the nation.
The US Medical System Is Still Haunted By Slavery courtesy of Vox – Shared by: Leondria Taty, MSN, FNP-C, HNB-BC
COVID-19’s Adverse Impact on Mental Health Access for People of Color – recording of the webinar