Over the years there has been a lot of change in how different social and ethnic groups are treated. In the past there was discrimination, and different groups could not get a fair shake.

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First three paragraphs: BERKELEY - When residents are actively involved in their neighborhoods, they can clean up the crime and violence. That’s according to a new study that found a significant decrease in assaults, car crashes and other alcohol-related crime with community participation. Calls to police and emergency medical services also dropped with this intervention program that addresses alcohol sales and service. Researchers at the PIRE Prevention Research Center implemented and tested the program called the Sacramento Neighborhood Alcohol Prevention Project or SNAPP in an effort to reduce access to alcohol and the problems related in two low-income, predominantly ethnic minority neighborhoods. The intervention focused on individuals between the ages 15 and 29, an age group with high rates of alcohol-involved problems. Sacramento-based La Familia Counseling Center Inc. assisted in the project. This article, published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, highlights the results that show that changing the way alcohol is sold and served can reduce alcohol-related problems – even in high-crime neighborhoods. Researchers selected two economically and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Sacramento that had high rates of crime and alcohol-related problems.

Some progress has been made recently in reducing certain health-care racial and ethnic disparities.

On December 6, 2006, Kaiser Family Foundation announced a weekly report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. You can sign up for email or RSS delivery, or just visit the site to see recent news. From the announcement: "**NEW! Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race,Ethnicity, and Health** This free, weekly report synthesizes news coverage from hundreds of print and broadcast news sources related to health and health care in racial and ethnic communities. To receive this free report by email, sign up at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/email http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/disparities "