Posted on 02/11/22 by Amanda Woodrum in Clean Energy + Green Jobs
Bishop Marcia Dinkins leads the charge with first-ever BLAC paper For most of the last century, the people of Appalachia’s Ohio River Valley powered the prosperity of this nation. What you might not know — because of broad stereotypes about Appalachia — is that many of those people were Black workers. Working remotely from her home in Dayton, Bishop Marcia Dinkins launched the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) to counter whitewashed narratives of Appalachia by removing the cloak of Black Appalachian invisibility in the first ever BLAC paper, “Black Storytelling and Policy Making in Appalachia.” An event celebrating the report’s release can be... read more
Posted on 02/10/21 by Amanda Woodrum in Health & Health Equity
COVID-19 exposed existing flaws in our economic and health care systems by taking a disproportionate toll on Black and low-income Ohioans. This is due to the increased prevalence of chronic health conditions in these communities... read more
Posted on 12/14/16 by Amanda Woodrum in Transit
[A slew of Ohio organizations jointly sent a statement to Governor Kasich on Wednesday, December 14, requesting that the Governor address Ohio’s staggering underfunding of mass transit. This blog excerpts most of what they requested... read more
Posted on 04/07/15 by Amanda Woodrum in Transit
A majority of poor people and minorities now live in the suburbs—isolated from jobs, services and the transportation needed to access them—according a recent report from the Brookings Institution. The report, entitled “The Growing Distance Between... read more
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