Recent Posts in Ending Racism

Jul 25, 2022 - In Ending Racism Enhancing Awareness and Participation of Black Breast Cancer Patients in Clinical Trials

Coral Omene, MD, PhD , medical oncologist in the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center together with RWJBarnabas Health, has ...

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Jun 29, 2022 - In Ending Racism A Look at Black Women in the Workplace on Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race

The February 24, 2022 session of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race discussed Black women in the workplace with featured guest speaker Linda Goler Blount, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, a national ...

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Jun 29, 2022 - In Ending Racism Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race Held on March 25

In honor of Women’s History Month, a conversation with African American women who are leaders at RWJBarnabas Health was held on March 25, 2021 on the intersectionality of being Black and a woman, the need to “shift” or code-switch, and how this behavior ...

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Jun 29, 2022 - In Ending Racism Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race: Understanding the Impact of Microaggressions

The April 29, 2021 segment of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race focused on microaggressions – a subtle, often unconscious prejudice that results in discrimination against a member of an oppressed or marginalized group with Jennifer R. Jones-Damis, ...

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Jun 17, 2022 - In Ending Racism RWJBarnabas Health Recognizes Juneteenth

Today, RWJBarnabas Health joins others in celebrating Juneteenth and commemorating that moment – one that has taken on new significance in recent months and years. On June 19, 1865, two months after the effective end of the Civil War and more than two ...

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Jun 10, 2022 - In Ending Racism RWJBH Black Executive Alliance Kicks-Off Inaugural Mentorship Program Cohort

Participants of the Black Executive Alliance’s Inaugural Mentorship Cohort (Front row, left to right): Sabrina Keller, Diana Bellamy, Francine Jackson-Childs, Douglas M. Peterson, Letwana Bryant, Naomi Brooks (Back row, left to right): Meilledjine ...

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Apr 14, 2022 - In Ending Racism Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey President and CEO Receives NAACP of Oranges and Maplewood President’s Award

Darryl L. Jeffries, President, NAACP Oranges Maplewood Branch presents Darrell K. Terry, Sr., President and CEO, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey the President’s Award at their 109th Annual Thurgood Marshall Freedom ...

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Apr 12, 2022 - In Ending Racism Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race

The June 24, 2021 session of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race featured a virtual performance with the New Jersey Mental Health Players, an interactive program for healthcare workers. According to the Mental Health Services of America, people of ...

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Apr 12, 2022 - In Ending Racism Changing The Definition of Health

In this video DeAnna Minus-Vincent, Executive Vice President Chief Social Justice & Accountability Officer at RWJBarnabas Health invites us to look at healthcare differently – by including social, economic, and educational outcomes as part of the equation ...

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