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Dr. Daniels was a tireless advocate for diversifying the physician workforce and has worked closely with the Associated Medical Schools of New York to expand the pool of scholars choosing careers in medicine and health care, by providing academic enrichment and support to students from educationally and/or economically underserved backgrounds.  

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A growing number of politicians and community leaders think the time has come to drop East Side from Buffalo's geo-vocabulary. Their preferred choice? East Buffalo. Others cautioned about those from outside the communities taking it upon themselves to brand geography.

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Although Juneteenth is symbolic of the chains coming off, the U.S. government used numerous ways to legally put them back on by creating laws and policies that intentionally discriminate against Black Americans, making true freedom impossible.

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Buffalo is one of the poorest cities in the country, and nearly half of children living in the city are poor. But the hardship that defines the city is not evenly shared. There is severe residential segregation, which keeps Black and white residents living in different social, economic, and political realities.

As our community continues to mourn the loss of those who tragically lost their lives on May 14th, 2022, at Tops Supermarket. We ask that you take this time to think about what your role, responsibility and commitment is as a change agent. What we are called to do individually and collectively, because our community needs us now more than ever.

Poor health outcomes flow directly from adverse social determinants of health including poverty,  and access to education, employment, transportation, safe neighborhoods, affordable childcare and others..

“Instead of framing health outcome questions around matters of ‘personal choice,’ it’s more reasonable to note that there are marginalized and vulnerable people in our community that are faced with few positive choices,” said Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County health commissioner.

Thinking about communities where for decades their health was degraded by entrenched medical racism, environmental injustice, and systemic inequality.

One billion dollars has been set aside in the New York State budget to redesign the Kensington Expressway. Leaders referred to it as a “transformational” investment that would reconnect a neighborhood on the eastside of Buffalo severed by the highway for more than 60 years.

The Buffalo Public Schools and the University at Buffalo's School of Nursing are aiming to address two major issues in the nursing field in Western New York.