Stay informed with the latest from Center for Health Progress. Here, we highlight key moments from our fight to get corporate greed out of our healthcare system, including legislative battles, campaign wins, and community stories.
Nonprofit Quarterly
Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health
This five-part series, Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health, examines how healthcare in the US has been built on the principle of imposing control over body, mind, and expression. The Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade—which stripped millions of people with uteruses of bodily autonomy—is just the latest knot in a […]
Nonprofit Quarterly features Center for Health Progress
BUILDING COMMUNITY POWER TO RECLAIM HEALTH Nonprofit Quarterly recently highlighted Center for Health Progress’ legislative win and our power building strategy, in the second installment in a five-part series, Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health. Dr. Sonia Sarkar of Healing Capital examines how organizers have reclaimed control over health at both the […]
Jewish identity and the fight for collective liberation
In 2018, a domestic terrorist and white supremacist opened fire and killed innocent members of the Tree of Life Synogogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This place of prayer was partially targeted because of their resettlement support programs for immigrants and refugees. This was an act of antisemitism deeply embedded in racism and white nationalism. The Weisenbergs, […]
A large part of my job is advocating for the needs of BIPOC communities in meetings with legislators and government representatives, and I am often one of the only people of color in the room. When a white physician says, “people of color don’t trust the health care system, it’s just their culture,” and heads […]
This post was written by Sarah McAfee, a former member of our team. On a recent road trip with my sister, a doctor, we were talking about how race is a social construct. (We’re not the best conversationalists.) She asked, “If there’s no biological basis for race, then why do some medications work better for […]
