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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

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This put pressure on governments, institutions, and other organizations to proactively engage in racial justice reform within healthcare and medicine. According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine , these algorithms direct more attention or resources to White patients than to members of racial and ethnic minorities.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

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A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.” The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

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Researchers have found that the duration, quality, and frequency of rest in general and sleep in particular are shaped by income level, housing conditions, employment status, type of work, and race. Rest and race are intertwined, and it all boils down to who has the right to rest and under what conditions rest and leisure should be granted.

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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

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This component provides a process for delving deeply into one’s own life experiences and peeling back the layers to uncover the complex dynamics—specifically of race and diversity—that shape our perspectives. Design: Angel Acosta Critical Love , which focuses on fostering deep commitment and ethical responsibility toward communities.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

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11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach. 21 In other words, until quite recently, it was considered politically smart for economic justice groups to avoid talking about race.

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Board Diversity: Recruit Talent, Not Tokens

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A nonprofit board of directors should be strategically designed to guide your nonprofit toward its mission and provide essential governance. The board has a primary function of ensuring the organization fulfills its commitment and responsibility to the public as stated through their mission, code of ethics and charter.