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...
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,...
By Terry O’Connor, a nurse at Novant Health UVA, Prince William Hospital and Health Care Hope Ambassador — I was called for a time such as this. This is what I signed up for. ...
By, Doris Crouse-Mays, President, Virginia AFL-CIO –It is time to address the safety of workers in Virginia who are putting their lives on the line during this pandemic. Frontline workers and those providing other essential services are facing unsafe conditions day...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director — Photo: My mother at a 1984 union protest in front of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York — In early April when the Centers for Disease Control...
By Kim Bobo, Executive Director, VICPP — It all started with one grocery store. Doris Crouse-Mays, President of the Virginia AFL-CIO, emailed VICPP about grocery store workers in Mechanicsville who needed masks. We reached...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, VICPP — The troubling federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic is spurring voters to gear up now to get out the vote for the upcoming primaries and general...
By Roberta Oster, Communications Director, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — “Quarantining is a privilege,” my friend Yanet reminds me. “My family is undocumented, my parents work in ‘essential’ jobs and have to go to work,...
March 24, 2020 — Message to Interfaith Communities in partnership with Standing Together Steering Committee of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities (VCIC) — Co-authors, VCIC Standing Together Steering Committee and Rabbi Michael Knopf of Temple Beth-El in...