In light of recent events including police brutality and ensuing protests, the staff at NNLM NER stand with the Black and African American community. My colleagues in other NNLM regions curated lists highlighting Black\/African-American Health and Anti-Racist resources:<\/p>\n
In the interest of sharing different resources and with NER\u2019s special initiative focused on graphic medicine, I felt it was important to share graphic medicine by and about Black\/African-American health, as well as anti-racist graphic medicine resources.<\/p>\n
Graphic Medicine<\/em>\u00a0is comic books and graphic novels that cover topics of health and wellness.\u00a0 The visual format makes the information easier to understand and digest.\u00a0 By reading a personal, non-fiction story, we can learn about issues we may not have experienced ourselves.\u00a0 These stories can also help us feel less alone in our own lives.<\/p>\n From traditionally published graphic novels to webcomics and self-published works, below are some examples of graphic medicine works and resources that address Black\/African-American health and race or racism.<\/p>\n Whit Taylor<\/a> is a cartoonist and public health professional who has graphic medicine works that often include historical and scientific context for public health and healthcare concepts.<\/p>\n Using statistics, historical records and stakeholder interviews, We Are Wynadotte (Kansas City, KS) created two comics on redlining<\/a> and how the practice continues to affect the health of their community.<\/p>\n The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the Graphic Novel Round Table curated a reading list of graphic novels that highlight Black experiences<\/a>. \u00a0Here are three examples of graphic medicine works on the list:<\/p>\n Looking to make your graphic medicine collections and programming more inclusive? My PSR colleagues hosted a webinar on Inclusive Graphic Medicine<\/a> in August, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In light of recent events including police brutality and ensuing protests, the staff at NNLM NER stand with the Black and African American community. My colleagues in other NNLM regions curated lists highlighting Black\/African-American Health and Anti-Racist resources: Pacific Southwest Region with links to African American mental health, anti-racist reading materials, cultural competency, NLM African… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,275],"tags":[265,108,500],"class_list":["post-15805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-graphic-medicine","tag-graphic-medicine","tag-health-disparities","tag-health-equity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15807,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions\/15807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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