White Coats Kneel For Black Lives,
New Haven Independent

Article by Emily Hays, published in New Haven Independent on June 5, 2020.

Full article is available here.

An excerpt is included below:

After a few minutes milling around, the speeches began. Each protest organizer made a few quick remarks and then handed the megaphone to the protest’s central speaker, YNHH resident Amanda J. Calhoun.

“I’m glad you’re here, but I have to ask — where have you been and will you stay?” said Calhoun (pictured above).

Calhoun described seeing doctors deny the racism their patients were experiencing both in their lives and at the hospital itself. She said that a higher-up had deleted her notes after she had witnessed a possible act of racism in the hospital. She called on those at the protest to listen to their black colleagues and patients and let them know that they are safe people to talk to about racism and white supremacy.

“All of your black patients experience racism. If they have not told you, it is because they do not trust you,” she said.