A coalition of former and current service members is holding the first-ever conference for Black veterans in the nation’s capital Thursday
Robert Dabney Jr. poses for a photo in Chicago, Monday, June 13, 2022. As a coalition of current and former military servicemembers hold the first-ever convening for Black veteran advocates in the nation's capital this month, they hope to draw attention to long-standing racial, economic and social inequities facing more than 2 million Black American veterans. As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a better life.
Testimonies like Dabney’s will be shared at the first-ever national policy conference for Black veterans in Washington on Thursday. Representatives from nearly 20 advocacy groups for service members of color plan to collaborate on a legislative agenda to address longstanding racial, economic and social inequities facing more than 2 million Black American veterans.
Slated speakers include the secretaries of the Veterans Affairs and Labor departments, as well as officials from some state and local veterans service agencies. According to Veterans Benefits Administration records analyzed by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School and reviewed by The Associated Press, there are statistically significant differences in disability claim outcomes for Black and white veterans. Although disability claim approval rates are low across the board, they are significantly lower for Black veterans.
“What most people would usually say is we went through the civil rights movement and things are better,” Mann said, but that was not borne out by the Freedom of Information Act statistics the advocacy groups received.
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