evidence: Since 2019, policymakers from more than 50 American municipalities and three states have formally highlighted racism as a public health crisis. And on September 3, 2020, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) introduced the Anti-Racism in Public Health Act in Congress. [...] Read the Washington Post article: Calls to declare racism a public health crisis grow louder amid pandemic, police brutality [...] Racism is a public health crisis (Harvard Chan School news)