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…
Lawmakers Respond to Video Showing Sacramento Teacher Making Racist Slant-Eye Gestures
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A controversial video showing a North Sacramento teacher pulling her eyes back in a gesture considered offensive to Asian people is making the rounds on social media. This comes following a string of reported hate incidents against people of Asian descent, stoking fear and anxiety. “For many of us who are Asian,…
How Educators Who Consider Themselves ‘White Allies’ Can Be Dangerous When It Comes To Developing Anti-Racist Classrooms
“I am a white ally,” the 30 something-year-old white teacher declared emphatically in the diversity and inclusion professional development session. She snapped her fingers to co-sign a colleague’s comments about Black Lives Matter, changed her Facebook profile picture to commemorate Breonna Taylor, and talked at length about brown and Black lives, writes Dr. Sana Shaikh on…
Why Ahmaud Arbery’s Accused Killers Will Remain Behind Bars As They Await Trial
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…
Citing Racism and ‘Years of Bullying,’ Dena Simmons Resigns From Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
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…
Rush Limbaugh’s Toxic Legacy
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…
How to Talk To Your Kids About The Capitol Siege
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…
Confronting White Supremacy Among Our Neighbors, Our Families — and Ourselves
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…
New Rep. Jamaal Bowman Introduces Bill to Investigate If Capitol Police Have Ties to White Supremacist Groups
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…
Storming The U.S. Capitol Was About Maintaining White Power In America
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…
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