This article originally appeared on the SAGE blog. SAGE is proud to introduce #PrideInPlace, our virtual Pride campaign for 2020. Pride in Place is a way to celebrate Pride and the 50th anniversary of our country’s first Pride March wherever you are, whether it’s a...
COVID-19 symptom monitoring program from Duke University
This article originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. Action is needed to help people of color to receive the care we need if we have COVID-19. Too many reports say that we are dying at disproportionately higher rates. We know that structural inequality, bias, and...
Lifeline Has Additional Support For Tribal Lands
This article originally appeared on the NICOA blog. Lifeline consumers can receive up to $25 per month discount (and up to $100 reduction for first-time connection charges) in addition to the standard Lifeline benefit amount if they live on federally recognized tribal...
Seniors Living on the Street With a Bleak Future
by Agustin Durán. To read the original Spanish-language article in La Opinión, click here. (Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí.) The first thing Gerado recommends to young people so that they do not end up on the street is to learn a trade with which...
The Diverse Elders Coalition Calls for an End to the Racist Violence and Inequity Destroying Our Country and for Justice for George Floyd
Download, share, and print a PDF copy of this statement here. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man, was killed by police officers in Minneapolis. He, like many before him, is a victim of the racism that has been deeply engrained in many of our...
Why People of Color Feel the Loneliest at Work
by Leslie Hunter-Gadsen. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. (In February 2020, Next Avenue published an article about the Cigna survey, Loneliness and the Workplace 2020 U.S. Report. Among its findings, based on a survey of 10,441 adults:...