Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020

An Unlikely Duo

AUTHOR:

• Molly Jacobs, Ph. D., Department of Health Services & Information Management, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Racism has been a stain on the soul of the United States for centuries. Generations of workers were born, lived and died only knowing a world where communities, neighborhoods and churches were identified by the color of their inhabitants. Their jobs began with compulsory sexual harassment, cyber security and anti-discrimination trainings. Despite efforts, decades of struggle, racism, discrimination and bigotry remain pervasive in every vein of the American workforce even those whose mission is to improve the lives of those they serve like communication sciences and disorders (CSD) and the field of speech language pathology (SLP).

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