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Tiffany Onyejiaka

Protecting the Water Rights of Indigenous People
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Protecting the Water Rights of Indigenous People
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Historically, the United States government has stripped, ignored, and infringed on the water rights of Indigenous communities.

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Environment Health Politics Social Justice
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Support historically Black colleges and universities.

Support historically Black colleges and universities.
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HBCUs are key to increasing representation of Black people in STEM. So why are they historically underfunded?

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Education
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Support community-based research.

Support community-based research.
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Research about issues hurting marginalized communities has skyrocketed. But is it causing more harm than good?

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Education Money
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Unpack “Black-on-Black crime”.
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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.

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Media & Culture Social Justice
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Ensuring the Access to PrEP
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Ensuring the Access to PrEP
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Addressing the racial and geographic disparities that make PrEP less accessible.

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Health LGBTQ+
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Promote agricultural education.
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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.

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Education Environment
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End “race norming” in healthcare.
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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.

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Health
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Learn how film and television portray policing.
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Law and Order. CSI. Hawaii-Five-Oh. American Sniper. TV shows and movies about law enforcement and the police permeate the screens of Americans across the country. Media portrayals about police officers, detectives, judges, crime fighters, and more firmly implemented into the cultural lexicon. Just because they are on TV does not mean that these shows exclusively exist for entertainment. Many shows actively depict criminal justice without showcasing the many ways it harms the lives of communities of color. These shows often work to bolster law enforcement in the eyes of white supremacy while simultaneously reducing compassion for the disproportionately Black victims of its system.

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Criminal Legal System Media & Culture
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