I didn’t know how to respond. I was only slowly becoming aware of how Asian women are often viewed as stereotypes, not as individuals, especially in the United States. I didn’t know how to defend myself, or how to defend my Asian sisters from the disturbing subtext of his question. The older I got, though,…

Dr. Aesha Drozdowski, Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist from the St. Alphonsus Medical Group, writes: I wanted to make sure everyone was aware that the allotted slots for COVID-19 Vaccinations on 3/11 and 3/13/21 at the Gordman’s location in Meridian, which will be opened to the public this evening (3/10/21). As you know, currently, these slots are being HELD…

A Georgia judge announced that the father and son charged in the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery will remain behind bars until their trial because he says they pose a “risk” if they were to be released from jail, according to reports. After a two-day hearing in November, Chatham County Judge Timothy Walmsley explained his…

Dena Simmons, a prominent researcher of social-emotional learning, resigned from Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence last month due to what she calls a pattern of behavior by some colleagues that left her feeling “tokenized, undermined and bullied,” EdSurge reports. The final straw for Simmons happened in June, during an antiracism town hall sponsored by…

He repeatedly mocked the death of gay men from AIDS in the 1980s, suggested that the Clintons murdered their aide Vince Foster in the 1990s, called the NBA “the Thug Basketball Association” in 2004, and claimed that college student Sandra Fluke owed him a sex tape in return for taxpayer-subsidized birth control in 2012, according to Vox. He once…

by Michael Strickland From the graphic images on TV to information circulating on social media, the fallout from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues. It will be embedded on our minds for a long time. Weeks after this seemingly surreal tragedy, the media is still flooded with images, and there is…

The list of those arrested or identified as participants grows: legislators, lawyers, doctors, nurses, firefighters, current and former members of the armed forces, and police officers. “It’s long been assumed that the most extreme upholders of white supremacy in the United States, those willing to engage in violence on its behalf, are impoverished, uneducated, socially…

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) is drafting legislation to call for a commission to investigate Capitol Police and whether any of its members have ties, directly or indirectly, to white nationalists and white nationalist sympathizers, Mother Jones Reports. “It’s critical when you look at the disparity in terms of how the Capitol Police responded to the insurrection…

Prof. Hakeem Jefferson writes on how this was a white supremacist insurrection (this piece is also a great compendium of links to other work). EXCERPT: So, let’s return to the images of Wednesday, when a crowd of white people gathered at the Capitol with American flags and Trump flags and symbols of the Confederacy. For…

Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can’t escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Such is part…