Giving Day: Roots Community Health Center
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Giving Day: Roots Community Health Center

Giving Day: Roots Community Health Center South Bay Regional Director Alma Burrell discusses how they’re helping the community amid the COVID-19 pandemic. [button href=”https://www.ktvu.com/video/693391” title=”Title” target=”blank” shape= block=”true” info=”popover, tooltip” info_place=”top, right, bottom, left” info_trigger=”hover, click, focus” info_content=”This content will only show up if you have decided to show a popover.”] View Broadcast [/button]

Giving Day Drive: Roots Community Health Center
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Giving Day Drive: Roots Community Health Center

For the Giving Day Drive this week, KTVU is highlighting the work of Roots Community Health Center, which provides services to those impacted by systemic poverty in the East Bay. CEO Dr. Noha Aboelata joins Mornings on 2 to discuss the organization. [button href=”https://www.ktvu.com/video/693391″ title=”Title” target=”blank” shape= block=”true” info=”popover, tooltip” info_place=”top, right, bottom, left” info_trigger=”hover,…

5 Ways to Show Up for Racial Justice Today

The scope of systemic racism in this country is overwhelming and infuriating. Race affects everything — how seriously your doctor evaluates your symptoms, your quality of education, your job and housing prospects. And, of course, your likelihood of being harassed, arrested or killed by police, who, in the vast majority of cases, walk away with…

Is your Oakland pharmacy open? Our guide to what’s open, where to get help, and why it matters

Is your Oakland pharmacy open? Our guide to what’s open, where to get help, and why it matters

Chain pharmacies are closed across much of Oakland, but locals are organizing to make sure medicine remains accessible. Many of Oakland’s pharmacies are closed in the wake of protests, riots and looting sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week. All 10 of Oakland’s Walgreens locations are closed after some were…

Commentary on Hypertension in a Pandemic and Health Challenges for the Black Community
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Commentary on Hypertension in a Pandemic and Health Challenges for the Black Community

I’ve got a reasonable threshold for pain. Been to funerals and left with dry eyes. But last week I cracked and shed my first few tears of this COVD-19 pandemic. I was reading this article on the science website Elemental about the disproportionate number of African Americans being impacted by the coronavirus, and I just…

Roots in the News: “Out of prison, soap making offers a clean start”

Roots in the News: “Out of prison, soap making offers a clean start”

Roots’ social enterprise, Clean360, was featured on KALW 91.7 FM’s Crosscurrents! Listen here. Accompanying article below: Out of prison, soap making offers a clean start By TAMMY DRUMMOND • MAR 28, 2016 Emancipators make soap at the Clean360 factory in Oakland. TAMMY DRUMMOND “When I was 11 years old, I sold my first crack rock…