EquityBlog

ShareMuch attention has been given to this week’s New York Times article, “Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity,” which reviewed two new studies that did not find a relationship between the food outlets in neighborhoods and obesity rates among youth.  Yet over the past 20 years — with more than 130 studies [...]

ShareOn Friday, April 13, I attended the third California State Assembly Hearing on the Status of Boys and Men of Color (BMoC)—this one in Fresno—and as always it felt great to be a part of work that so directly relates to my experience and that will also affect the future of my nephew. The hearing [...]

ShareState Policy Updates As a service to practitioners, advocates and system partners, we will periodically share information about proposed legislation with relevance to the health and success of boys and men of color.  The summaries below are of  bills addressing  the priorities of the California State assembly Select Committee on the Status of Boys and [...]

ShareNEW RESEARCH UCLA Report Says Out-of-School Suspensions Reveal ‘Hidden Crisis’ in California Researchers at UCLA released a report showing 400,000 California students were suspended from school in 2009 — enough to fill all the professional baseball and football stadiums in the state. The new study from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA also found  that [...]

ShareSustainable Communities needs your help! This Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development will vote on funding for the Sustainable Communities Initiative in the FY 2013 budget. Through this program, investments in affordable housing and good jobs near transit are being planned in 142 cities and regions across the country—with equity [...]

ShareSet your DVR’s! Last night PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell appeared as a guest on Bill Moyers PBS series, Moyers & Company. Angela sat down for more than an hour talking with Bill about the issues she has spent most of her adult life advocating – practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, [...]

ShareThe Golden State’s tremendous diversity will be the key to its future economic success—if its leaders take action to increase fairness and opportunity. Equity is not only a moral imperative—it is also an economic one. These are the key messages of the new report California’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model, authored by PolicyLink and the [...]

ShareEarlier this month, we shared with you the new PolicyLink/PERE report California’s Tomorrow, which looks at how demographic and economic trends in California have converged in ways that make equity central to the future of California’s economy. Today, we’re releasing two new papers that summarize roundtable conversation conversations we had with local leaders in Los [...]

ShareThe following is a statement from PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell on the Senate’s passage of “MAP-21″ transportation bill last week.  ”The Senate recently passed Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) by a vote of 74-22.  This is the first major step toward passing a surface transportation reauthorization.  It is [...]

ShareOver 900 participants tuned in to the PolicyLink Equitable Strategies for Growing Urban Agriculture webinar on February 16 to listen to Mary Donnell of Green City Growers, Ian Marvy of Added Value, and Malik Yakini of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network discuss the process of starting up and maintaining their successful but very different urban agriculture models. Urban agriculture—from school gardens [...]