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Below you'll find our post category archive. Note that many titles will have , , and at the end of the text. These help identify pages, posts, and events representing our three core values: Community, Thriving, and Wellness. To learn more about this, read about our Action Plan. These also all help support our #ActForInclusion.

George Floyd mural

NEW YORK TIMES | The Death of George Floyd Reignited a Movement. What Happens Now? ♥

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Cheryl Wisseh

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs | Bridging the Gap: Pharmacy Deserts ♥ ✚

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Bridging the Gap: Pharmacy Deserts Access to fresh food, safe shelter and health services all support the wellbeing of communities—their absence in neighborhoods of color leads to health inequities. Over the last decade, pharmacies have closed in low-income neighborhoods and new ones have opened at more profitable locations. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. The straight line between pharmacy closures and dangerous health outcomes is well documented. In this essay, part of the Bridging the Gap series where we focus on health equity, Cheryl Wisseh, health sciences assistant clinical professor, Department…

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Aomawa

INSIDE HIGHED ED | Claiming a Louder Life: Part I & II

Claiming a Louder Life: Part 1 There is a cost to remaining publicly silent in the face of overtly racist and exclusionary attitudes, writes Aomawa Shields. Read Part I   Claiming a Louder Life: Part 1 There is a cost to remaining publicly silent in the face of overtly racist and exclusionary attitudes, writes Aomawa Shields. Read Part II

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Bridget Cooks

CBS SACRAMENTO | Making Art More Inclusive: Museums Work To Address Diversity In Galleries

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SCIENCE Magazine cover

SCIENCE | The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago, by Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocar Ba

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President Drake

UC President Michael V. Drake reflects on Black History Month ♥ ★ ✚

This Black History Month, UC President Michael V. Drake reflects on the Black workers, scholars, artists and activists who have propelled the University of California-and the world-forward and the work that remains to achieve our ideals of equality, inclusion and justice.

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Students in Center for Black Cultures

UCI NEWS | Black History Month: Recognizing Black groundbreakers in the Anteater community ♥ ★ ✚

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Cheryl Wisseh

UCI NEWS | UCI study first to link disparities and ‘pharmacy deserts’ in California

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michele goodwin

NEWSWEEK | OPINION by Michele Goodwin, Dear President-Elect Biden: It’s Time to Actually Abolish Slavery in America ♥ ★✚

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A portrait photograph of Arianna Long, an astrophysicist with her own constellation

Arianna’s Long Path to the Stars

UCI astrophysicist faces the universe’s darkness with help from those around her and from the stars above her.

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