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'Birthing Justice' highlights the Black American maternal health crisis
Black pregnant Americans are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white pregnant Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. And according to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, Black infants are nearly four times as likely as white infants to die during birth. “I had no idea how much this problem was…
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Shaky Ground: How the United States Uses the Law to Steal Indigenous Land - In These Times
A review of Peter d’Errico’s Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples, an indictment of a legal system with the unflinching goal of stealing as much land as possible. Despite its confusion and contradictions, federal Indian law — in d’Errico’s terms, “anti-Indian law” — has long had an unchanging purpose. By destroying Native individuals and communities, it has…
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Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military - The Atlantic
Police killings are of course not the only fuel for the mass protests. Beyond the deaths of Americans such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor lie countless other large and small indignities—the massive stop-and-frisk program practiced by the NYPD until a court order declared it unconstitutional, the needlessly aggressive execution of warrants—that also fall most heavily on people of color and the…
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Brothers in the Movement ::: The Protest Psychosis :::: Recommended Reading
An account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illnessThe civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story…
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Stop Cowering Before This Half-Bright Florida Fascist - In These Times
Ron DeSantis wants to break the unions and make a temporary advantage permanent. ” . . . In Florida, all of the most important macro-issues of American politics are screaming out as we speak. The proud fascism that DeSantis embodies must be met with radicalism. Clinton-esque Democratic attempts to triangulate their way out of the problem are doomed to fail, and will only serve to drive home the…
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The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book - The Atlantic
The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, Dreams From Our Founding Fathers, reveals a distinct vision of American history and how it should influence the present. By David Waldstreicher DeSantis of 2011 praises the Tea Party movement and the backlash it inspired, which cost Democrats the House in 2010. He thinks the movement was absolutely right to…
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How Liberty HealthShare Left Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire — ProPublica
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline For generations, members of the Beers family of Canton, Ohio, have used Christian faith to sell health coverage to more than a hundred thousand people like Martin. Instead they delivered pain, debt and financial ruin, according to an investigation by ProPublica based…
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Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nation | Books | The Guardian
Another foundation of the disinformation crisis was the deregulation of broadcast by the Reagan administration, which eliminated the fairness doctrine in 1987. That simple change insured the pollution of the radio airwaves by Rush Limbaugh and his imitators, creating the first echo chamber.Of course, the internet allowed these waves of lies to reach warp speed, more destructive than anything…
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Racial Justice Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge. by Meribah Knight,…
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“THE FLORIDA OF TODAY IS THE AMERICA OF TOMORROW :: Vanity Fair
Republican politicians and right-wing activists are transforming one of the Sunshine State’s liberal arts schools into the “Hillsdale of the South,” a strategy that could be replicated across the country. As one New College alum tells Vanity Fair, “I weep for our nation if DeSantis wins a presidential bid.” BY KATHRYN JOYCE FEBRUARY 10, 2023 ILLUSTRATION BY KHOA TRAN. IMAGES FROM GETTY…
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Lawmakers Attempting Takeover of Funds for Jackson’s Water System, Federal Manager Warns :: Jackson MISS
For decades, state and city leaders have clashed over who should control local spending, services and infrastructure. Now, both the federal manager and the city’s mayor are warning that state politicians are attempting to take over Jackson’s water system, along with hundreds of millions in federal funds meant for repairing it. by Nick Judin, Mississippi Free Press Jim Craig, of the Mississippi…
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Secret Societies and the Fight for Black Freedom :: JStor
Secret Societies and the Fight for Black Freedom Dating to the pre-Revolutionary era, mutual aid and benevolent societies supported Black Americans and the fight for civil rights and justice. The United Order of the Tents in Brooklyn, 2023 Jonathan Aprea Secret Societies and the Fight for Black Freedom By: Ashawnta Jackson February 3, 2023 Share Tweet Email Print The United Order of the…
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BLACK RESISTANCE :: 2023 BHM THEME :: ASALH since 1926
2023 BHM THEME Black Resistance African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores. These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political…
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ASALH BLACK HISTORY MONTH VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
BLACK HISTORY MONTH VIRTUAL FESTIVAL ASALH WILL HOLD INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY CELEBRATING THE 2023 BLACK HISTORY THEME: BLACK RESISTANCE This year’s festival will celebrate the theme of Black Resistance in the past present AND FUTURE STARTING FEBRUARY 1st 2023. During these uncertain times in which the very nature of what the Association does—the teaching of…
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Ron DeSantis Battles the African American A.P. Course—and History :: Dr. Jelani Cobb : The New Yorker
Ron DeSantis Battles the African American A.P. Course—and History The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true. Dr. Jelani Cobb By Jelani Cobb January 29, 2023 The debacle surrounding the Florida Department of Education’s recent rejection of an Advanced Placement course…
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Black History Month 2023 :: Why BHM is Important
Origins of Black History Month Daryl Michael Scott Re-publication The story of Black History Month begins in Chicago during the summer of 1915. An alumnus of the University of Chicago with many friends in the city, Carter G. Woodson traveled from Washington, D.C. to participate in a national celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation sponsored by the state of Illinois. Thousands…
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How the Supreme Court Protects Police Officers :: The Atlantic
It’s almost impossible to hold them to account. By Joanna Schwartz Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty How the Supreme Court Protects Police Officers JANUARY 31, 2023, 7:12 AM ETSHARE On the afternoon of February 8, 2018, more than two dozen law-enforcement officers crowded into a conference room in the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, on the outskirts of Atlanta. They were preparing to execute a…
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