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“We want everyone to be in here,” said Pastor Diane Borden. “I think this will be our first really full [event], and every chair in here will be filled.”
Trinity Covenant has held in-person worship since July. They ve modified the room, replacing pews with tables six feet apart. Attendees are also required to make reservations.
In Hartford, the Urban Hope Refuge Church held last year’s Easter ceremonies outside in a parking lot.
“Instead of raising your hands and shouting hallelujah, we beeped on [car] horns,” said Pastor AJ Johnson.
This year, Johnson is looking forward to having congregates back in his house of worship, which opened to in-person services at the beginning of March.
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Advocates, lawmakers press for health equity measures as legislative session heats up
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Dawn Cook prays along with others who came to a protest at Bushnell Park in June. “I hope it will be a momentum to make substantial changes,” Cook said.
A month into the legislative session, advocates are turning a spotlight back on an issue that failed to gain traction at the state level last year, even as the coronavirus pandemic exposed stark disparities in health care: declaring racism a public health crisis in Connecticut and passing reform to address long-standing inequities.
In June, following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police and amid a health crisis that has disproportionately harmed communities of color, cities and states across the country took the symbolic step of declaring racism a public health crisis. In Connecticut, 20 municipalities, including Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Simsbury and West Hartford, have adopted the declaration, alo