Community Conference to discuss Seattle Children's Hospital anti-Blackness and collective demands within the context of building collective Black power, agency and ownership in healthcare.

Black community leaders, members, and elected officials will address the State of Black Community in COVID-19, and present the collective demand to allocate federal American Relief Plan Act (ARPA) funding equitably. Specifically, community leaders are calling on the City of Seattle and Martin Luther King Jr. County to invest at least $300 million dollars from the recently awarded ARPA funding directly into the local Black community in Martin Luther King Jr. County.

Panelists discuss a number of recent stories re: Black healthcare failures in Martin Luther King Jr. County. Amplifying, partnering and collaborating with rooted-Black community members and thought-partners, we discuss the need and movement to build collective power and raise solutions the healthcare system must take immediately to rectify its anti-Blackness moving forward.