It’s Time to Elevate and Learn from BIPOC Leaders: Advancing Equity, Celebrating Black History Month
by Chandra Crawford/ February 3, 2023
This blog post is difficult to write. We are at the beginning of Black History Month, yet so many of us are in an unnervingly familiar and traumatic space regarding the killing of yet another Black man, Tyre Nichols, at the hands of law enforcement.
At the Alliance, racial equity and justice are key to our values, mission, and goals. But it is a reoccurring moment like this that reinforces the need for us to name, call out, and address systemic racism and the inequities that continue to harm Black communities today, and ultimately shape the racial and ethnic disproportionalities and disparities we see in the homelessness system.
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