people of color

Within the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is the Office of Mental Health Equity, a division dedicated to helping communities of color in need of mental health and substance use assistance through culturally competent programs. Samia Hussein is the division’s director, working to help people connect with the services the state makes available. She’s working to get...

The disappearance of Gabby Petito has drawn a frenzy of coverage and brought new attention to a phenomenon known as “missing white woman syndrome.”

Former CEO of Xerox Ursula Burns and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker share insights on how corporate America can become more diverse.

Aundrea Tabbs-Smith helps educators revamp their classroom library and restructure their curriculum so that people of color are celebrated and centered.

New federal data gives insight into Connecticut’s demographics, information that could help create policy at the state level. Connecticut has become more racially diverse, but we’re still losing our young people to states out West. That is just some of the info from new, federal data just released. In the past few weeks the U.S. Census Bureau put the...

A new Census Bureau report shows that we have become more racially diverse as a state but we have also become slightly older.