End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...a difference in their communities—despite personal difficulties and decreasing assistance from governing bodies—should inspire more activism. But the question remains, how can we continue this work when governmental policies have...
When the Border Crossed Me
...lives, the borders especially between the people we depend on in so many ways and the policies that vilify them. I now teach and write about all of this, traveling...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...they had learned. In Ramu, faith-based organizations overcame the silos between their work, meeting to formulate policies for combating the spread of vaccine misinformation. Volunteers working with faith-based groups increased...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
.... . . intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that." Though the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...is of course implied here.) Walker's critique of Faulkner's fiction using his public pronouncements in advocating gradualism in relation to change in racist policies as a lens for critique is...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...States. He also gives particular attention to the role of Spanish colonial policies on manumission, self-purchase, and militia service in creating New Orleans’s unique caste of free people of color....
The US South and the 2008 Election
...2006 book, Whistling Past Dixie, urged Democrats to give up their "sentimental" and "nostalgic" ties with the South and focus on liberal policies that could secure majorities in the most...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Public health and racial segregation Labor and public health, corporate medical policies, work-related health issues Rural poverty and well-being Mental health Food deserts and place-based food insecurity Health-focused writing: fiction,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...chronic vulnerability to terror, discriminatory private policies, and predatory financial practices, and one that needs to be understood as a central problem to studies of capital formation and race relations...