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Adopt Resolution to End Black Health Disparities in Boston

Last activity March 5, 2026 (7 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    March 2, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

This matter is a City Council resolution in support of addressing health disparities affecting Boston’s Black community. It cites the Black Life Expectancy Report and endorses investments and partnerships, including a $1,000,000 commitment with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to support cancer prevention and related health initiatives, alongside actions discussed at a Black Men’s Health Activation Summit.

Affects Black residents and Black men and women in Boston

In Roxbury and Back Bay

Filed by Benjamin Jacob Weber, Enrique Pepén, Erin Murphy, Julia Mejia, Ruthzee Louijeune, Ed Flynn, John FitzGerald, Sharon Durkan, Gabriela Coletta Zapata, Liz Breadon, Brian Worrell, Miniard Culpepper, and Henry Santana

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Official title

Resolution in support of ending health disparities impacting the Black community in Boston. On motion of Councilor Santana, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Culpepper and Worrell as original co-sponsors. On motion of Councilors Santana, Culpepper, and Worrell, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted: yeas 13 (Breadon, Coletta Zapata, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell),

Timeline

  1. March 4, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.

    City Council

    Watch the meeting City video Minutes, March 4, 2026