#systemic-racism

#systemic-racism

Alexandra Robbins' The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession opens with this line: "You may think you know what's inside, but you don't."And Robbins delivers on this promise.I taught four different high school classes for two years in Austin before the COVID-19 pandemic, which showed me what teachers experience.

The 2020 brutal murder of George Floyd by white police officers was an impetus for many newsrooms across the country to re-energize diversity efforts.These reckonings around racial justice and equity promised internal mentorship programs, diverse event programming, more open conversations about systemic racism, additional funding for the recruitment and retention of diverse news workers, and new positions focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the newsroom.

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own.The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests systemic racism may be shaping obstetric care in the United States.

Emergency department visits for firearm injuries in the United States dropped slightly since 2020, but the rate in 2022 was still above pre-pandemic levels.According to a new study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the weekly number of emergency department visits related to firearm injuries began to rise in March 2020 before sharply increasing in May 2020 and remaining high.

Californians are weighing in publicly on the idea of reparations to Black Americans, with the state's Reparations Task Force set to report their recommendations by July 1.This initiative builds on smaller-scale efforts, such as in my hometown of Evanston, Ill., which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to promise limited financial reparations for slavery and city-sanctioned discriminatory housing policies.

The mortality rate for children and teens in the United States surged in 2020 and 2021, driven not by deaths from Covid-19 but from fatal injuries from things like firearms, drugs and cars, according to a study published Monday in JAMA.The pandemic years brought a marked shift to the trends in pediatric mortality, which had previously seen a period of great progress, according to the study authors.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 22, 2022, in Tampa, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images Three high school students represented by attorney Benjamin Crump are planning to sue Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting a new high school Advanced Placement African-American studies course, the prominent civil rights lawyer said Wednesday.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Child Trends researcher Jennifer Manlove about the significant decline in teenage pregnancies in the United States.AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Teen pregnancies are on the decline across the country.A new analysis by the research group Child Trends shows that among female teens, birth rates have gone down 77% in the past 30 years.

A row has erupted in France after a rightwing politician insisted that a high school named after the Black US activist Angela Davis should change its name.Valerie Pecresse, who ran for president last year for Nicolas Sarkozy's party, Les Republicains, scoring a humiliating 4.78%, is head of the greater Paris Ile-de-France region.

Artist Alberta Whittle has said she hopes her new exhibition will spread a message of hope amid the challenges of tackling racism.The artist, whose free exhibition opens in Edinburgh on Saturday, said she wanted to explore the themes of care and compassion and the importance of community in galvanising change.

The police chief insisted that he nonetheless completely accepts the diagnosis of Baroness Casey's damning report into the Met and there is zero defensiveness here.Sir Mark said he was content to use the word systemic to describe the Met's problems, but that institutional was a political word with an ambiguous range of meanings.

Black women will take centre stage at what is believed to be the first maternal health conference of its kind in the UK.Sandra Igwe said the gathering of clinicians, service providers and mothers is the first to focus specifically on racial health disparities experienced by black women.Research has found that black women are almost four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women.

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has announced a new initiative to support local women of color as they launch and grow small businesses.Starting on March 15, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)-owned businesses will be able to apply for the BK Entrepreneur Academy, a mentorship program aimed at enhancing equality for entrepreneurs of color in the borough.

Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday she would sign an executive order creating the Governor's Advisory Council on Black Empowerment.Thirty Black leaders from across Massachusetts will serve on the council.They will advise Healey on issues related to "the economic prosperity and wellbeing of Massachusetts' Black community, including education, health care, housing, and workforce development," according to a statement.

JGI / Tom Grill / Getty Images A Black infant is many times more likely to die within one year of birth than a white infant is, even if that Black infant comes from a wealthy home, a new study shows.The study, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month, demonstrates that disparities in Black infant mortality rates cannot be explained by economics alone.

I heard this recently and can't get it out of my head: "Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think."It's from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who wrote My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey.

Representatives from a mosque in downtown Hamilton are speaking out after they say a bomb threat was made against the mosque on Friday, calling the incident "disturbing and concerning.""A bomb threat was made to the Ibrahim Jame Mosque in relation to a congregational prayer," said a statement posted on the mosque's Facebook page on Saturday.

AUSTIN, Texas  By the end of this week, Austin will have a new mayor and three new city council members.The Austin City Council will convene on Friday at 6 p.m. to hold an inauguration for Mayor-elect Kirk Watson, District 3 Councilmember Jose Velasquez, District 5 Councilmember Ryan Alter and District 9 Councilmember Zohaib "Zo" Qadri.