#systemic-racism

#systemic-racism

1. Mental health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a significant issue, and addressing mental health initiatives for this population is essential.
2. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists believes that the Voice to Parliament will have a positive impact on the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres

"This is a continuation of a national agenda to whitewash history," said state Sen. Shevrin Jones.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs three education bills on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida on Monday, May 15, 2023.Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post / Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed legislation into law that will defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at Florida's public colleges and allow the state to remove programs, majors and minors that teach "identity politics" or critical race theory.

Thousands of Flint, Michigan residents were poisoned by contaminated water on the Republican governor's watch.Gov. Rick Snyder listens to members comments during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about the Flint, Michigan water crisis on March 17, 2016, in Washington, D.C.Mark Wilson / Getty Images Environmental justice advocates on Friday condemned a move by a district judge in Michigan to drop two misdemeanor charges against former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in connection with the 2014 Flint water crisis that killed dozens of residents of the predominantly Black city and poisoned thousands more.

The news of the video and its aftermath came ahead of River Valley's game against Roseville Woodcreek High School last Friday.The team forfeited its game on Sept. 17, and the season was then canceled.A high school football team in Northern California was forced to forfeit the remainder of its season after a video showed several players staging a reenactment of a "slave auction," according to district officials.The district and River Valley staff are working on lessons to help the students learn from the situation, Osumi said.

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 BBC is facing mounting calls to abandon reported plans to axe its Black and Asian local radio shows  with warnings that the move will alienate minority audiences.The corporation plans to reduce the number of weekday shows on each BBC local radio station to two  breakfast and lunchtime programmes  placing all shows that air after pm at risk of being cancelled altogether or folded into regional and national programming.

Call them snowplow parents, lawnmower parents, or helicopter parents - the point is that their care is more mechanical than mothering of fathering.These parents clear a path and remove obstacles so their kids can get ahead without having to avoid or surmount obstacles.Sure, this all comes from a place of love, but it also comes from selfishness and status obsession.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A program aimed at improving the city's response to mental health emergencies has slid backward since its initial launch, with response times getting slower, more people sent to hospitals and stepped-up police involvement in cases.The program, the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD, was aimed at reducing friction in crisis situations by sending trained professionals instead of cops.

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.

Fighting the national rise of Fascism, bigotry, including anti-Semitic acts, systemic racism, and hate crimes are on the minds of many New Yorkers (antisemitism is on an all time high in New York City) .According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Jews make up just over 2.2% of the population in the U.S. as of 2020.

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.

Politics "This is what white supremacists do.They tell lies and hope that you will believe them," she said.Boston City Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia addressed accusations that she is addicted to drugs and attacks against her looks in a YouTube video Monday.In the video, entitled 'Women of color in elected office are always under attack," Mejia says people on social media have been attributing changes in her appearance to drug use, but the changes are actually related to her ongoing health issues.

AUSTIN, Texas  Austin voters have chosen Kirk Watson as their next mayor, in a tight race decided by a few hundred votes.In November, neither Watson nor State Rep. Celia Israel received more than 50% of the vote in the race for Austin mayor, forcing a Dec. 13 runoff.On Tuesday, Watson was behind Israel by just 17 votes in Travis County, with 50.01%

It seems like the World Cup just started, but it's already time to start sending teams home.The United States play Iran in their final match of the group stage needing a victory, and there is suddenly some off-the-field drama ratcheting up the temperature ahead of the game.Here's a primer on how to watch the massive World Cup match and what to expect from the occasion.

AUSTIN, Texas  We still don't know who Austin's next mayor will be.None of the six candidates vying for the city's top job received more than 50% so of the vote, forcing a runoff election between the top contenders.Former Austin mayor and state senator Kirk Watson and State Rep. Celia Israel will face each other once again on Dec. 13.

Mother of Color, the first feature from queer, Mexican American filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone, tells a very personal and very Portland story.Jones Redstone calls it the "origin story" of its central character Noelia (Ana del Rocío), a single mother who reconnects to her past via connections with her ancestors.

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