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Illustration representing the criminalization of Black and Latinx people for substance abuse.
Health inequities are systemic, avoidable and unjust health outcomes ultimately perpetuated by those who have power in society. Here, we explore four examples of health inequities and their relationship to power imbalances.
Camara Jones
Meet the 10 experts examining health inequities through the lens of race, wealth and power in the documentary "Power & Health."
The Padilla children work on their nature-themed float for the virtual Rose Parade. | Courtesy of David Eads
As staying at home has become the norm, children are finding ways to cope and express their creativity through surprising artworks, aided by adults and cultural institutions.
Fresh medicinal herbs and essential oils - ingredients to prepare a homemade skin product, top view. | iStock
I became passionate about making natural body care products not only to address the contaminants of pharmaceuticals, but also to connect with my Mayan ancestry.
The Potawot Community Garden, housed at United Indian Health Services’s facility in Arcata, California, incorporates elements of permaculture seamlessly into the center's holistic approach to healing the Earth and body. | Still from "Tending Nature"
Permaculture is a recent offspring of indigenous science. A dismissal of this as such is a telltale sign and symptom of the colonizer and its unnatural selections.
Syuxtun Collective inspecting plants at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden.
We have forgotten how to be medicine to the land, and to ourselves. The members of Syuxtun Collective are revisiting lost indigenous wisdom of learning and listening, of harvesting and preparing plant medicine in participation with nature.
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