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Advocates, lawmakers press for health equity measures as legislative session heats up

Advocates, lawmakers press for health equity measures as legislative session heats up Yehyun Kim :: CT Mirror 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

Hartford gathering reflects on Martin Luther King Jr s legacy, highlights pandemic s impact on communities of color

Hartford gathering reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, highlights pandemic’s impact on communities of color Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant © Photograph by Mark Mirko | mmirko@courant.com/Hartford Courant/TNS Simsbury, Ct. - 01/18/2021 - (left to right) Joao Galafassi, Jack Grossman and Harper Wilson of the Martin Luther King in Connecticut Committee clean the five glass panels honoring King and his time in Connecticut, placed outside the Simsbury Free Library. In 1944, when King was a teenager, he spent a summer picking tobacco in Simsbury About a dozen masked, distanced congregants gathered at Urban Hope Refuge Church in Hartford Monday to reflect on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., noting how the coronavirus pandemic has widened disparities in income and health care between white communities and communities of color.

CT communities schedule events to honor MLK

West Hartford s MLK Activities Outlined

West Hartford s MLK Activities Outlined Patch 1/14/2021 Chris Dehnel © Tim Jensen/Patch West Hartford s 25th-annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s life is scheduled for Jan. 18. WEST HARTFORD, CT West Hartford s 25th-annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s life is scheduled for Jan. 18. The event is slated for 10 to 11:30 a.m. a.m., virtually on West Hartford Community Interactive on Comcast Ch. 5, Frontier Ch. 6098 and www.whctv.org. This year’s keynote speakers are Cori Mackey and A.J. Johnson of the Center for Leadership and Justice. Mackey has two decades of executive leadership experience in urban ministry, social justice work, nonprofit management, and faith-based community organizing. In August 2014, she was appointed executive director of the Center for Leadership and Justice. Mackey s passions are engaging low-income communities in organizing efforts that bring about quality of life changes, and promoting the interse

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