Dayton Children’s Hospital declares racism a public health crisis, enacts change from within

Once again, this country is facing the reality that we have failed to overcome a long history of racism and bigotry. The names of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor are now sadly familiar to all of us. Here in our own community, we had the needless death of James Crawford. The shroud of silence and indifference has been raised and as a country we are confronting the unfinished business of addressing this country’s long-standing pattern of systemic racism. “Racism is a public health…