Contact your Representatives:
Contact your Representatives:
- Below is information you can use to easily take action on an issue relevant to PSJ. By clicking "Information Summary" you can learn about an issue currently active in Washington, DC. If you would like to send a message to your representatives, there is a brief statement that you can send them (cut-and-paste, as-is or modified). By clicking one of the links under "Contact info is here:" you will be taken to a web page where you can paste the suggested text into a message addressed directly to a Senator or Congressman.
- Below is information you can use to easily take action on an issue relevant to PSJ. By clicking "Information Summary" you can learn about an issue currently active in Washington, DC. If you would like to send a message to your representatives, there is a brief statement that you can send them (cut-and-paste, as-is or modified). By clicking one of the links under "Contact info is here:" you will be taken to a web page where you can paste the suggested text into a message addressed directly to a Senator or Congressman.
Below is a recording of an NPR Planet Money episode (June 12, 2020) called “Patent Racism” that you may find intriguing. It is an interesting, concrete example of systemic racism at work.
The United States of Anxiety Video Web Page
Black people in Louisiana make up 70% of the deaths in all known coronavirus patients in the state, while only representing about 32% of the population.
That's according to Governor John Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Department of Health, who released new statistics on the racial break down of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday.
According to Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, the founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, the numbers are a reflection of the lack of access African Americans have to the healthcare system in Louisiana.
Newsday's Testing the Divide Video Web Page