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“Systemic racism is not just a concept perpetrated outside these walls; it is a crushing reality for people of color in their daily lived experiences here at the CDC” states a letter signed by 1,200 current employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The letter calls for the CDC to address racism […]
The suppression of women’s rights to control their health and lives continues in the midst of the pandemic. Recent Supreme Court decisions take us one step forward at the beginning of the week and then two steps back at the end. Everywhere, women’s ability to care for themselves and their families is limited by travel […]
If we are learning anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in racial violence, and the instability that results from a lack of positive leadership, it is that our world is more interconnected than ever before. Crises in health and justice in the US affect people all over the world, and vice versa. In a […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world, but has not affected all of us equally. Social and economic factors determine who is most vulnerable to the virus and who’s health will suffer most. In their reporting about the impact of the pandemic, news outlets often leave out the effects of COVID-19 on people with […]
8 minutes and 46 seconds. That’s how quickly the police murdered a 46-year old African American man named George Floyd on May 25th, 2020. The horrifying reality is that we have seen these police killings happen time and time again, and time and time again nothing has been done to stop them. We can’t say […]
As the COVID-19 worldwide death toll breaks 250,000, it obscures the even larger number of lives claimed by another virus: HIV. Since the beginning of the year, over 500,000 people have died from HIV/AIDS. One thing the two viruses have in common is that there is no cure for either. However, we do have the […]