Farmworkers in 2020 have been deemed essential workers. Yet, the chronic, disabling, deadly and depressing circumstances they endure are not part of the imagery that goes along with the problematic trope of essential workers as superheroes.
While Los Angeles has the reputation of being a city of dreams, its urban landscape has become a nightmare for Black and Brown residents. Learn how South L.A. has developed in a way that's detrimental to its residents and what's being done about it.
There are no easy decisions for leaders to make when it comes to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Both principle and concern about risk are informing collective decision-making, but privilege also underlies many such deliberations.
Racism undergirds the inequities we see in nearly every major measure of health status we have. But there are immediate steps we can take toward transformative solidarity to begin changing our systems and institutions.
In the U.S., where our health is impacted more by our surroundings than by our health care plans, our well-being comes down to how much (or little) power we have to make decisions impacting our daily lives.
Perceptions of public safety impact the physical and mental well-being of residents. In communities like South Los Angeles, racial profiling by police and unequal law enforcement tactics have large impacts for public health.