The Patriots said that Andrews, who spent all 10 of his seasons with the team before he was released in March, will retire at a news conference on Monday.
More than 200 cities and counties declaredin the past few years, mostly after
was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020.said they finally felt heard by theto address disparities like disproportionate
The declarations “signified this might be us finally breaking through the noise that they haven’t been willing to hear,” said Ryan McClinton, who works at the nonprofit Public Health Advocates in Sacramento County, California. Marsha Guthrie, the senior director at the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, called 2020 a “catalytic moment for us to kind of reimagine social consciousness.”“Think about the ... decades (and) decades of just fighting to get the conversation about race even centered in the American psyche,” she said. “Now people talk about it as a general course of fact.”
Some places’ health departments took on the work of the declarations, creating improvement plans centered on
. Others turned the work over to task forces and consultants to look at internal work environments or make action plans and recommendations.Associated Press videojournalist Martín Silva Rey contributed to this report from Cuauhtemoc, Mexico.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At the site ofa century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving “
,” one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to bring new life into the world.Black women are more than three times as likely to