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Contributing writer, Anti-Racism Daily. Tiffany Onyejiaka is a writer who covers health, social justice, and culture, especially how healthcare affects the most disempowered communities. She studied public health at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Glamour, Prevention, Healthline, and TheBody.
Issues written by Tiffany Onyejiaka for Anti-Racism Daily, newest first.
7 issues · 2021–2022
Historically, the United States government has stripped, ignored, and infringed on the water rights of Indigenous communities.
HBCUs are key to increasing representation of Black people in STEM. So why are they historically underfunded?
Research about issues hurting marginalized communities has skyrocketed. But is it causing more harm than good?
Aristotle said, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime” (Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality). But in the wake of violence in impoverished Black communities, we often only hear the same refrain: “Why is no one doing anything about this?” The idea that nobody in Black communities works to stop community violence is racist, classist, and false.
Addressing the racial and geographic disparities that make PrEP less accessible.
Agriculture is in full focus this year with people gaining awareness about how their foods are cultivated. As people across the country found themselves spending more time at home, home and community-based gardening started to rise (MLive). This trend is not limited to adults. It also includes the education provided for students. Agricultural education is a powerful component of racial equity that should be promoted for students across the country.
Over the past year, the global pandemic has highlighted the vast racial disparities in medical treatment in the U.S. Many of its elements are more subtle; difficult to see if you don’t experience it first-hand. But some are more blatant – like racial correction factors. In medicine, equations and algorithms can often be used to diagnose or screen patients. Racial correction factors are when physicians adjust the measurements or risk calculations for patients based on their race. Despite the fact that race is a social construct, many medical providers hold on to the idea of race as a biological variable. This has a severe, sometimes fatal impact on people of color.