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BEC Discusses Data & Community Empowerment with WPXI
December 1, 2025
Data Justice Project aims to improve lives of Black Pittsburghers
Shaylah Brown · November 22, 2024
Pittsburgh launches project that uses data to address racial inequities
Laura Esposito · November 14, 2024
Black Equity Coalition is awarded $20k for the Open Data for Good Grand Challenge
December 15, 2021
Burnout among pharmacists slows COVID-19 booster shots
December 15, 2021
Data analysts proved what Black Pittsburgh knew about COVID's racial disparities
December 7, 2021
Data science proved what Pittsburgh’s Black leaders knew: Racial disparities compound COVID risk
December 7, 2021
A Matter of Trust: COVID-19 Vaccines - Celebrating Safely
November24, 2021
A Matter of Trust: A COVID-19 Conversation
June 10, 2021
A Matter of Trust: COVID-19 Vaccines — It’s Personal
May 12, 2021
The Black Equity Coalition Wants To Know More About Who’s Not Getting Vaccinated
May 4, 2021
The Black Equity Coalition Wants To Know More About Who’s Not Getting Vaccinated
Published May 4, 2021 at 9:15 AM EDT
COVID Vaccine Inequity Between Black And White Allegheny County Residents Increases
By Sarah Boden • Apr 23, 2021
A Matter of Trust: COVID-19 Vaccines - Two Generations Talking
Apr 21, 2021
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show Pt. 3
Lynne Hayes Freeland spoke with members of the Black Equity Coalition about the new results of a study about COVID-19 and vaccine distribution. • Apr 12, 2021
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show Pt. 2
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show Pt. 2
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show Pt. 1
Lynne Hayes Freeland spoke with members of the Black Equity Coalition about the new results of a study about COVID-19 and vaccine distribution. • Apr 12, 2021
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show Pt. 3
Lynne Hayes Freeland spoke with members of the Black Equity Coalition about the new results of a study about COVID-19 and vaccine distribution. • Apr 12, 2021
Report Shows Racial Disparity In Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout In Allegheny County
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A new report revealed not everyone is getting the same opportunity for the coronavirus vaccine in Allegheny County. The Black Equity Coalition’s report says people of color are having a harder time getting the vaccine than white people. • Apr 1, 2021
Three community leaders who led COVID vaccine events in Pittsburgh offer ‘one step in the solution to a wholly inequitable process’
Navigating the COVID-19 vaccination scheduling site in Allegheny County is like taking an online final exam when none of the multiple-choice options is the right answer; a privileged few are wrecking the grading curve; and the entrance to the exam site is obscured for the poor, homeless, Black and Brown. • Feb 23, 2021
From Virus To Vaccine: COVID-19 & The Black Community (Pt. 1)
In an hour-long special, Lynne Hayes-Freeland is joined by experts from around the community about the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVID-19 vaccines, and why there is hesitation among the Black community to get vaccinated. In the first segment, Lynne Hayes explores the history of vaccinations and the Black community. Then she is joined by her panel of experts. • Feb 20, 2021
COVID-19 In Pennsylvania: Health Care Workers In Underserved Communities Get Vaccine To Build Trust
"Unfortunately, whenever you look at vaccination rates by race or ethnicity, you see a clear disparity." • Jan 19, 2021
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show (Pt. I)
Lynne Hayes Freeland spoke with Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb and Dr. Jamil Bey of Black Equity Coalition to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine and what it means for the African American community. • December 2020
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show (Pt. II)
Lynne Hayes Freeland spoke with Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb and Dr. Jamil Bey of Black Equity Coalition to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine and what it means for the African American community. • December 2020
Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show (Pt. III)
Lynne Hayes Freeland spoke with Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb and Dr. Jamil Bey of Black Equity Coalition to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine and what it means for the African American community. • December 2020
Health Officials Trying To Convince People To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
With vaccines on the way and distribution plans ready to go, the remaining challenge is convincing people to get the vaccine. Royce Jones has more • DEC 12, 2020
WATCH: Project CommUNITY: Just Listen - A Conversation with Black Pittsburgh
Project CommUNITY: Just Listen - A Conversation with Black Pittsburgh. Because it's time for many in Pittsburgh to just listen.
WHOLE-PERSON CARE
A July study from the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University found Blacks have been dying from Covid-19 three times more than whites, while Latinx people die at twice the rate. By Paul J. Gough • September 10, 2020
GARY-WEBB TESTIFIES AT PA DEMOCRATIC HEALTH COMMITTEE ON BLACK COVID-19 EQUITY COALITION
THE MORNING CALL — As coronavirus cases increase in some minority communities, barriers caused by systemic racism are making it harder to provide the help those communities need, Pennsylvania doctors and public health officials said Wednesday.They were speaking at a Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee hearing on health disparities related to COVID-19. By Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb • July 15, 2020
Brown's Viewpoint: ‘This is something you can’t walk away from’
Brown's Viewpoint: ‘This is something you can’t walk away from’ For 36 years I have lived my life in service to the citizens of Pittsburgh. As a black CEO, I have sat in professional spaces as an intermediary in this region, pondering the purpose of our collective work. Racism remains one of the greatest impediments to our collective success. By Fred Brown • June 12, 2020
New Pittsburgh Coalition Tackles Racial Inequities And The Pandemic
Black deaths from COVID-19 are higher than white deaths due in part to institutional racism and social impediments, such as poverty. The Pittsburgh-based Black COVID-19 Equity Coalition is a group of public health researchers, businesspeople and elected officials working to address those factors as a way to secure better health and economic outcomes for the black community during the pandemic. By SARAH BODEN • June 8, 2020
Built By A Boss
By Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb • May 17, 2020
MASERU PARTICIPATES IN PANEL THEMED AROUND HUMAN RIGHTS AND COVID-19
By Noble Maseru (BCHS), Director of the Center for Health Equity • May 6, 2020
MASERU ADDRESSES HILL DISTRICT COMMUNITY FORUM ON COVID-19 ON SOCIAL EQUITY RESPONSES TO THE PANDEMIC
By Noble Maseru (BCHS), Director of the Center for Health Equity • May 6, 2020
Community Groups Take It Upon Themselves To Feed Those In Need In African American Communities During COVID-19 Crisis
“Food insecurity is not a COVID-19 issue. It’s an issue that already exists, it’s just exacerbated,” Shanon Williams said and pre-coronavirus data backs that up. One in ten Americans, one in eight Pennsylvanians, and more than one out of every five Pittsburghers struggled with food insecurity before the pandemic. By Jody DiPerna • April 28, 2020
1st Annual William "Bill" Jenkins Lecture. "Systemic Racism in the Time of COVID19"
Apr 23, 2020
Health Equity and COVID-19 in the US and Brazil
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — African Americans are more likely to have family and friends die from COVID-19 or from a respiratory illness in the past few months, that’s according to a survey by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.• Apr 9, 2020
A deficit of more than 250,000 public health workers is no way to fight Covid-19
What happens when a nation systematically cuts or underfunds its public health workforce? We are seeing an answer to that in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping across the United States. By Robin Taylor Wilson, Catherine L. Troisi, and Tiffany Gary-Webb • April 5, 2020
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