Faith in Democracy
by Dora Muhammad, VICPP Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager As I worked the polls at Fannie Fitzgerald Elementary School in Prince William County on Election Day yesterday, I reflected on the legacy...
The Personal Loss that Centers Our Public Push for Birth Equity
by Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager I have a teddy bear that a relative gave me when she was a little girl. It was given to her when she was...
Remembering Rev. Fletcher Lowe, an original founder of VICPP and former executive director
Fletcher In His Own Words: Read, “A pilgrimage not to be forgotten,” an essay published March 2020 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on his pilgrimage to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery....
Sacred Memories: Confronting Historic Racial and Religious Violence to Counter Contemporary Injustices
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager On May 1, 1865, formerly enslaved Blacks in Charleston, S.C. honored 257 Union soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a...
The Virginia Woman at the Foundation of Protecting Patient Autonomy
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager PHOTO CAPTION: Dora Muhammad with four granddaughters of Mrs. Henrietta Lacks and family at the 2017 symposium, “Issues of Blood: Rights & Responsibilities –...
Escorting the Elephant Out of the COVID Vaccine Room
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager PHOTO: VICPP Health Equity Program Manager Dora Muhammad participates in a state-run pop-up vaccination clinic held at First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries...
Black Pastors Help Win the Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty in Virginia
Black Pastors Help Win the Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty in Virginia “This monumental victory to abolish the death penalty in Virginia is a significant step in acknowledging the racist legacy of capital...
A Pathway to Citizenship is a Health and Justice Intervention for Undocumented Essential Workers
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager More than 100 people participated in our Day of All People listening session held Jan. 21st with immigrant leaders of LA RED (Liberation, Action,...
We’re Still Pushing for Prenatal Care for All Mothers
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — In several days, Christians will culminate the holy observance of Advent in celebration of the birth of...
Hope Heroes: Nurse Alexis Smith
By Alexis Smith, a nurse at the Kaiser Permanente satellite emergency room in Tysons Corner, Va. I don’t know how I got COVID. The first patient I swabbed for the coronavirus was in March,...
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