Baltimore City Health Department held racially segregated equity meetings: report

According to Spotlight on Maryland, a joint investigation unit from The Baltimore Sun, FOX 45 News and WJLA records show the agency paid outside consultants to conduct racial equity training and then advised BCHD to host separate "White caucus" and "people of color caucus" meetings. According to Spotlight on Maryland, the organization paid the People's Institute to attend and provide feedback for its monthly "White Caucus Group," which is a "group of White people who meet for the purpose of building analysis, awareness, stamina, and strategy to challenge systemic racism and internalized White supremacy." "These goals require some time and intentional spaces where White people can do the personal work of understanding our own complicity and systemic racism and build the skills necessary to challenge that complicity," the agency’s description of the scheduled meetings reportedly said according to the local reports.