In Loving Communion: Critical Conversations on Racism, Health, and Healing

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Bell Hooks said, “rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. healing is an act of communion.”

Join us for a community conversation with Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Drexel University Dr. Nic Ramos titled, “Childcare as Healthcare: Poor Black women, Welfare, and Healthcare Policy in late 1960s and 1970s Los Angeles.” Nic Ramos explores how Johnnie Tillmon and Black welfare activists in Los Angeles changed the mission, direction, and aims of King-Drew Medical Center — a Black-led Medical Center built as a response to the Watts Uprisings — to better meet the needs of poor women of color and their children. His conversation illuminates how this local campaign changed the direction of the welfare rights movement and federal healthcare policy.

In Loving Communion: Critical Conversations on Racism, Health, and Healing” is a conversation series that extends the work of The Ubuntu Center’s core project: Illuminating and Addressing Structural Racism in the Healthcare Industry (ISR).

The ISR project is a three-year, multi-site initiative led by the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements & Population Health Equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The ISR project intends to synthesize and build on existing research, practice, and activism to clearly illuminate the historical roots of structural racism in the healthcare system. The project also intends to uncover the modern-day structures, policies, and institutional practices that have resulted in and perpetuated structural racism, racial capitalism, and a culture of white supremacy.

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Contact Information

K White
kw3332@drexel.edu