| May 12, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyEvery morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida with growing concern. First came the photos of unemployed people lining up to file for benefits in person, denied access to an overburdened system. Then came the news that only a...
| Apr 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedThere’s an old saying in the black community I’ve heard my parents and grandparents repeat many times: “When white people catch a cold, black people catch pneumonia.” I can’t help but recall that old adage as demographic data comes out showing alarmingly...
| Apr 8, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe rapid spread of the coronavirus is, for good reason, causing a global panic. Almost every region of the world is affected, with the disease rapidly spreading to new areas. Fear is justifiable. Directing it against people who have nothing to do with the crisis is...
| Apr 1, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy“COVID-19 is a White man’s disease. It doesn’t seem to infect Black people,” posited Jane, a community leader in New Haven, Connecticut, who had come to the U.S. as a refugee from Africa many years ago. Jane addressed my team of health researchers and members of...
| Mar 11, 2020 | Rights / DemocracySix years ago, I messed up. In 2014 I started grad school. I went to the first school event for new students and told another student an anecdote about my study abroad in China in 2000. I told the story exactly as I always had — and I used a bad Chinese accent and...