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As the number of neighborhood health centers grew, their newfound visibility drew criticism from mainstream medicine.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
The United States, with less than 5 percent of the global population, has almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. One in nine black men between twenty and thirty-four is behind bars. This has effectively decapitated the leadership in the inner cities, where African Americans have traditionally had to react more quickly to confront social injust
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
After the Cuban Revolution, which promised racial equality and socialism, elite and White Cubans descended upon Miami. They settled in “Little Havana” and Hialeah. In 1963, Miami established the first modern bilingual school program in the United States. Though it raised the ire of some Anglos, the Jim Crow stratification of the city allowed Cubans
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Tapson Mawere, a revolutionary intellectual in the fight for Zimbabwean independence,
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
As with many HBCUs, Storer was once a high school in addition to a college. The first president of postcolonial Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe, completed his high school education at Storer before going on to Howard University.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Stacey Milbern is a disability justice thought leader with twelve years of experience incubating leadership programs, managing services programs, and providing technical assistance to organizations wanting to increase their capacity around disability and diversity. She is a queer, mixed race, disabled woman of color and is passionate about advancin
... See moreAlice Wong • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People
But what one “means” is neither important nor relevant. It is not necessary that you believe that the officer who choked Eric Garner set out that day to destroy a body. All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroy
... See moreTa-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
Approximately 10,000 Eastern European Jews immigrated to Palestine, as compared to nearly a million Jews who immigrated to the United States.5 Most of the Jews of the First Aliyah had no realistic hope of establishing a Jewish nation in Palestine. Although some Jewish intellectuals, such as Leo Pinsker, had advocated “autoemancipation” as early as
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