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A Letter to My People:
Reflections on Whiteness Amid a Racial Reckoning in America
ft. Erika Blacksher, PhD, John B. Francis Chair, Designee
The United States is in the midst of a movement for racial justice unprecedented since the 1960s....
Hedy (Hedwig) Lee
"A Letter to My People: Reflections on Whiteness Amid a Racial Reckoning in America" ft. Erika Blacksher:
"We need...to understand whiteness & its role in structuring America and shaping...inequities." bit.ly/2XWWiMg @square1justice
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An Inactivated Virus Candidate Vaccine to Prevent COVID-19
The global struggle against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now in its eighth month since the pandemic virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged. The severe economic, personal, and psychological...
Confidence in Police Is at Record Low, Gallup Survey Finds
For the first time in its 27 years of measuring attitudes toward the police, Gallup found that a majority of American adults do not trust law enforcement.
How we can turn racism into a solvable problem -- and improve policing
When we define racism as behaviors instead of feelings, we can measure it -- and transform it from an impossible problem into a solvable one, says justice scientist Phillip Atiba Goff. In an actionable talk, he shares his work at the Center for...
In rapid 'reckoning,' SPLC reports 38 Confederate monuments have been removed in US since George Floyd's death on Memorial Day
Nearly as many Confederate statues have been removed in less than three months since George Floyd's death as were removed in three previous years.
‘One-drop rule’ persists
Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.
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Hedy (Hedwig) Lee
"One of the remarkable things about our research on hypodescent is what it tells us about the hierarchical nature of race relations in the US...Hypodescent against blacks remains a relatively powerful force w/n American society.” One-drop rule’ persists
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For Doctors of Color, Microaggressions Are All Too Familiar
“They ask you if you’re coming in to take the trash out — stuff they wouldn’t ask a physician who was a white male.”
Podcast: Racism as a public health issue | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
This episode of ‘Show Me the Science' focuses on racial disparities in COVID-19, as well as protests aimed at systemic racism
Hedy (Hedwig) Lee
"I’m a Black woman, but I’m also part of the health-care system...sometimes skin color or even...a similar background, isn’t enough to...negate the distrust that...is rightfully there for many reasons." bit.ly/33KQ3z9 via @wustlmed @DrOniBee @uche_blackstock @RheaBoydMD
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Seek first to understand: Lessons on poverty teach medical students to be better doctors
Every year, for the past 15 years, first year students at Washington University’s School of Medicine have climbed on board three yellow school buses and…
Structural Racism and Health in Black Communities — SciLine
Racism is deeply ingrained in a number of U.S. social systems and institutions, where, studies show, it takes a toll on the health of Black individuals. SciLine's next media briefing will focus on health effects and disparities resulting from:...
Summer School for Protest Writing
With a reading list ranging from W. E. B. Du Bois to Kendrick Lamar, a remote class teaches Philadelphia teens how to express their frustration with society—including, in some cases, their schools.
For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn’t end their fight to vote
A noted historian examines two myths about what the 19th Amendment did—and didn’t—do for women in 1920.
The case against mug shots — a dehumanizing tool of a racist police system
Ending the release of mug shots to the public helps to restore privacy and dignity for people who have been arrested, but it doesn’t transform predatory policing.
Black and Pregnant During Covid: ‘They Never Had Time to See Me’
Why being Black and giving birth in New York during the pandemic is so dangerous.
Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present : Short Wave
Where does our preference for thinness really come from? As Sabrina Strings explains in her book, Fearing the Black Body, the answer is much more complicated than health or aesthetics. She argues the origins of modern day fat phobia can be traced...
Millions of Evictions Are a Sharper Threat as Government Support Ends
Without more federal aid for workers, experts are expecting the largest disruption to the housing market since the Depression.