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Reparations Reading Group: Racism and Healthcare

October 11, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm CDT

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The East Side Freedom Library and the St. Paul Recovery Act Reading Group invite you to our monthly conversation about reparations. 

Racism and Healthcare
How did it get this way?
How can we transform the system?
How is this part of the conversation about reparations?

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 6:30-8pm CT
Register here to join this event on Zoom.

The pandemic has revealed the gross inequities in access to healthy resources and access to health care.  These inequities have deep roots in the history of institutional racism in America.  What can we learn from history — hundreds of years and the past two and a half years — in order to make a better future for all of us?  How can an exploration of racism and health care inform our conversations about reparations and the making of a more just America?

Trahern Crews will lead our conversation which will explore these readings:

“Henrietta Lacks: Science Must Right a Historical Wrong”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z

“Fannie Lou Hamer Sterilization”

https://www.aroundrobin.com/fannie-lou-hamer-sterilization/

“Tuskeegee Experiment: The Infamous Syphilis Study”

https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study

“Black Americans Are Systematically Under-Treated for Pain”

https://batten.virginia.edu/about/news/black-americans-are-systematically-under-treated-pain-why

“Black People Are Three Times More Likely to Die in Childbirth”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniesoteriou/serena-williams-ignored-nurses-childbirth-black-women

“Hennepin Health Accused of Deeply Rooted Racism” 

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/hennepin-health-accused-deeply-rooted-racism-following-blackface-excited-delirium

Free and open to all

 

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Date:
October 11, 2022
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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East Side Freedom Library
Phone
651-207-4926
Email
info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org