Centering Black Voices

Every year during the month of February, organizations, creators, and influencers throw their #BlackHistoryMonth acknowledgements into the buzzword cloud that is today’s media. The parade of #AmplifyBlackVoices and #BlackLivesMatter marching across our feeds fuels warm, satisfied feelings that we’re doing the work, and doing it right. But centering Black voices goes deeper than celebrating a month or clicking “Share” on punchy BIPOC content. Explore key questions and actions to center Black voices.

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The Good Food Impact Hub: Data for the Good Food Movement (Webinar on Feb 17th)

Join a virtual tour of the Good Food Impact Hub, an interactive, online tool that provides data and resources to make the case for good food purchasing policies. Learn about the Hub's 5 key value categories, easy-to-use impact calculators, hear from local change-makers how they are using the Hub, get inspired by real world stories of leadership, and take action in your city.

Keeping our Communities Safe: The Role of Public Health (virtual town hall on Feb 22nd)

The American Public Health Association and COVID Collaborative are hosting a virtual town hall. A series of high-profile speakers will share the value of public health as a safety net to protect people against widespread illness, harm, and death where they live, work, worship, learn and play. Gain a deeper understanding of the value of public health and how to help to protect it.

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Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity

This Brookings report explores how racial residential segregation fuels the wealth gap, leveraging case studies across 17 cities in the U.S. Learn how homeownership rates, lending practices, credit scores, education, and property valuation can be leveraged to improve racial wealth equity.

Do You Live in a News Desert?

This national map of news deserts is designed to aid local research and analysis. Browse six tabs to explore local newspaper ownership, newspaper disappearance, digital options filling voids, original public broadcasting, and locations where ethnicity-specific papers are providing news to underserved communities. Delve deeper by selecting a state.

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2022 Data Trends from Tableau

We’re experiencing a golden age of data and technology—and there is no sign of it slowing. We’re seeing more simple, repetitive tasks be automated, giving rise to new opportunities to enable humans to do what they do best: reasoning critically and understanding data in context.

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2021: Pandemic Data Year in Review

Over the course of 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to ravage the world despite the major success of vaccine development and rollout. Learn how data collection, analysis, and dissemination efforts must be strengthened in order to end the pandemic in 2022.

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Beyond Allyship: Leveraging Activism Tools to Improve Transgender and Nonbinary Health

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Our Climate and Our Health

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