CONFERENCE: Reclaiming Vacant Properties (Cleveland, OH) To ensure that participation by a diverse set of stakeholders is possible, the scholarship program seeks to support representatives of grassroots organizations, community leaders, and public agencies that work closely with, or represent, lower-income or traditionally minority communities. Registration Scholarship Deadline is August 6, 2010. Click here for an application.
"Walking and Biking Key to Reversing U.S. Childhood Obesity Epidemic," The City Fix, July 20, 2010
Blogger Allison Bishins covers "Keeping Kids Moving," a national round table hosted by PolicyLink, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Transportation for America at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., which explored how equitable transportation policies can prevent childhood obesity.
"Race and America's Future," The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, July 14, 2010
PolicyLink Founder & CEO Angela Glover Blackwell and Manuel Pastor, professor and director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California discuss race, equity, and their new book Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future, co-written by Stewart Kwoh, founding president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC).
"Obesity Rising: Southern States Have Highest Rates," CNN, June 29, 2010
Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink Founder & CEO, and Advisory Board Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, comments on racial disparities in national childhood obesity rates as discussed in the report "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010."
"Sen Gillibrand Proposes More Fresh Food Stores," Epoch Times,April 12, 2010
Rep. Velazquez is introducing Sen. Gillibrand's legislation, the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, in the House of Representatives which is supported by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, PolicyLink, and City Council Member Margaret Chin.
"President Obama's Black Agenda," The Root, March 29, 2010
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO for PolicyLink, and a recent panelist in Tavis Smiley's "We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda" which aired on C-SPAN, comments on how Black critics don't give President Obama credit for what he has already done.
"A Powerful Start -- But Only a Start," Washington Post, March 29, 2010
PolicyLink Founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell encourages advocates, activists, and community leaders to work to make sure the millions still left out of our care system can get in. Blackwell states that "we must work to guarantee truly affordable care will be available in the future."
VIDEO: Who a Jobs Bill Should Target?" CNN,March 24, 2010 (video)
Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, discusses jobs and the state of Black America. The segment bounced off the new National Urban League “State of Black America” report.
"Obesity Report Cites Increase in African American Youth," WABE Public Broadcasting Atlanta, March 23, 2010
Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, and Principal Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, participated in a series of radio interviews were she discussed the impact of childhood obesity on communities of color and what policymakers and advocates can do to reverse this epidemic.
LETTER: "Navarrette's Sneers Misguided,"Sacramento Bee, March 5, 2010
Judith Bell, president of PolicyLink, responds to Ruben Navarrette's column stating that "23 million Americans live in left-behind communities that for decades have had to go without full-service grocery stores... with the nearest supermarket often two or more bus transfers away, farmers markets are many times the best way to get fresh food to these urban and rural communities." Bell goes on to say that "expanding access to healthy food for all people is crucial to reversing our national obesity and diabetes crises."
"A Path to Home Ownership for Minorities," Marketplace,March 4, 2010
Even though the Great Recession and the real estate crash are fading, African Americans are still at a greater disadvantage. PolicyLink founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell says that's in part because many minorities were unable to get into the housing market.
"Equity as a Growth Model," Healthy Urbanism Blog, March 3, 2010
This piece reflects on the recent keynote address given by PolicyLink founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference. "She spoke about the role of smart growth in relation to social equity and creating a sustainable, green economy. The thing that struck me from her speech was her view of the three E’s of sustainability (environment, equity, economic)."
"Health Care Rx: Obama Gets the Big Picture Right," Washington Post, February 24, 2010
Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink founder and CEO, states that "there is always room to argue with the specifics of a bill, but when it comes to the big questions at the heart of the health care debate, President Obama's proposal gets the big picture right. The bill addresses the four core concerns low-income Americans have about the health-care status quo..."
"The Oracle of Urban Policy," Next America City Magazine, Spring 2010 This piece profiles Bruce Katz, founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, and explores his vision for American cities. Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO for PolicyLink, stated: “Where equity is concerned, he (Bruce Katz)creates forums for people with that agenda to be heard. He’s taken urban issues out of the special interest zone and into the mainstream."
"Local Project Model for the State,"San Diego Union Tribune, February 19, 2010
In this op-ed, Angela Glover Blackwell, highlights innovative solutions for sustainable economic growth at the neighborhood level--like the San Diegocommunity called the Diamond Neighborhoods – comprising Oak Park, Webster, Emerald Hills, Encanto, Lincoln Park and Mountain View, among other neighborhoods – where residents are taking ownership of challenges and opportunities to strengthen their communities.
“Minn. Stimulus Grants Bypass Black Businesses,” New America Media, February 17, 2010
Kalima Rose, senior director of the PolicyLink Center for Infrastructure Equity, stated that PolicyLink, joined ISAIAH, and Organizing Apprenticeship Project (OAP)--a Minneapolis advocacy group--in producing a recent analysis of ARRA transportation investments in Minnesota and their impact on low-income communities and communities of color.
"Promises to Keep: The Obama Poverty Plan,"City Limits, February 9, 2010
This article on the promise neighborhoods plan discusses a paper presented to the Obama-Biden transition team by the Harlem Children’s Zone and PolicyLink--the report says a qualifying neighborhood should have a minimum childhood poverty rate of 40 percent, or at least 30 percent in areas where there are other issues going on, such as high crime or low test scores.
"Health Care Rx: We're Ready to Fight, too,"Washington Post,January 28, 2010
PolicyLink founder and CEO, Angela Glover Blackwell, reflects on President Obama's State of the Union address, stating that by "highlighting the real and continuing need for health reform - and recommitting to crucial components like ending pre-existing condition bans, dramatically expanding insurance coverage, and bringing down premiums - President Obama may have reshuffled the deck and brought us a step closer to real reform. But advocates who share the president's commitment need marching orders."
"One Man Can’t Fix a Broken Country," Salon, January 20, 2010
PolicyLink founder and CEO, Angela Glover Blackwell, states why she is energized and hopeful that the administration -- and millions of regular Americans far from the halls of power -- have laid a sturdy foundation for a strong, equitable, opportunity-rich America for the 21st century. She continues to say that "we cannot expect a few hundred people in D.C. to fix our country by themselves."
Originally posted on The Race Equity Project website, a special project of Legal Services of Northern California
The piece can also be seen in the latest issue of Race-Talk from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
"Health Care Rx: Listen to the Front Line," Washington Post, January 4, 2010
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO for PolicyLink, discusses the state of the health care reform debate with an emphasis on how "the voices of the people most affected by the current health care crisis have been remarkably absent. Working families, self-employed small-business owners and uneasy workers fearful of losing their jobs have been heard from less and less as the debate has crawled on."
“Tell Congress to Fully Fund the National Healthy Food Financing Initiative,” Change.org, February 4, 2010
Change.org referenced PolicyLink data, stating that expanding the (Healthy Food Financing) program to a national level will result in the development of more than 2,000 stores or other healthy food retail outlets in low-income rural, suburban and urban communities; increased access to healthy food for more than 15.3 million Americans; and the creation of nearly 200,000 new jobs.
