Hospital Care in Black and White: How Systemic Racism Persists

In New York City, skin color helps determine where a patient receives hospital care. It’s a form of systemic discrimination that undermines the health of Black New Yorkers.

Covid-19, Inequality and Poverty, Racial EquitySeth MoncreaseSeptember 16, 2020UM march23-past

Paycheck Guarantees: What Workers – Especially Black Workers – Need Now

A paycheck guarantee program would help an economy that has been hemorrhaging jobs and also address the profoundly racialized impact of the Covid-19 crisis.

Racial Equity, Inequality and Poverty, Covid-19Seth MoncreaseSeptember 9, 2020UM march23-past

Can Digital Learning Be Culturally Responsive and Equity-Based? Yes.

If they aren’t careful, the City might sacrifice their commitment to educational equity in the name of emergency modes of on-line learning. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Covid-19, Education, Racial EquitySeth MoncreaseJuly 1, 2020UM march23-past

Police Violence Is a Public Health Crisis. Here’s How to End It.

The problem isn’t isolated decisions by “bad apples.” It’s decisions made at much higher levels of the government and social system.

Racial Equity, JusticeSeth MoncreaseJune 23, 2020UM jun242020-past

An American Reckoning – And a Movement that Has Changed Common Sense

The crisis, as ever, is white supremacy. But this is not a rerun; this is something new.

Covid-19, Racial Equity, JusticeSeth MoncreaseJune 16, 2020UM jun242020-past

Pandemics, Policing, and the Curse of Localism

To end the effects of structural racism, we will need national standards in public health and public safety.

Covid-19, Racial Equity, PoliticsSeth MoncreaseJune 10, 2020UM jun242020-past

After George Floyd: Naming The Pain, Finding A New Path

This moment holds much more than rage at police brutality: the path of the coronavirus has revealed the dense fabric of inequality in a manner we have never seen before.

Justice, Racial EquitySeth MoncreaseJune 4, 2020George Floyd, Protest, UM jun242020-past

Black and Latinx Students Still Mostly Shut Out of Specialized Schools

The recently released admission results for next fall’s classes at New York City’s elite specialized high schools fit a racially and ethnically imbalanced pattern that has been the status quo in recent memory.

Education, Racial Equity, ArchiveSeth MoncreaseApril 14, 2020High school, Diversity, UM march23-past