Equitable Responses News Today

February 17, 2021 By Michele Learner We know that COVID-19 is not “equal opportunity.” People who contract the virus and people who die are disproportionately people of color, particularly Black people. The data available so far illustrate clearly how the pandemic affects different racial groups differently.  A recent Bread for the World Institute resource, “Racially Equitable Responses to COVID-19,” explains how systemic racism causes such inequitable outcomes. Some of the aspects of ...

By Asma Lateef As 2021 begins, Bread for the World Institute, along with many others in the United States, is trying to discern a way forward in the aftermath of the January 6 attempted coup. I never expected to write “attempted coup” about our own country. But what happened at the Capitol is how coups often unfold. The coup attempt targeted the very last step of the process before the inauguration of a new president—congressional approval of the results of the presidential election as ce...

January 11, 2021 By Marlysa D. Gamblin In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic further revealed the legacy of unresolved racism by disproportionately harming Black and Brown communities. The looming question that many policymakers—including President-elect Joe Biden and the new Congress—must face is how to address these racial inequities. The answers can be found in a new report from Bread for the World Institute: “Racially Equitable Responses to COVID-19.” The report compares the national death...