The recent course of violence and hate against Asian Americans has once again laid bare the ways America actively maintains its systemic racism.

“I can’t breathe.” Those three tragic words have become a feature of campaigning against police violence in the United States, echoing the last words of Eric Garner, killed in New York City in 2014. But in 2018 they were also uttered by a black man in the UK. Kevin Clarke, a Londoner who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

People subject to the “no recourse to public funds” condition are at risk of worse health outcomes than the general population across four areas. 

How important has your local grocery store been during Covid-19? For many people, shelter-in-place orders, travel restrictions and more have turned their nearest store into a lifeline. This lifeline was severed for St. Paul residents last month.

Black women are three times more likely to die from complications related to childbirth than White women.

More than one in ten U.S. households was food insecure at some time during 2018. And according to the USDA, approximately 39.4 million people live in food deserts throughout the U.S.