by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Just picked up this story about a minute ago. The “broken windows” strategy that Giuliani used in New York City to successfully harass and intimidate (largely black and Latino) working class New Yorkers had already been persuasively debunked. Even James Q....
by admin | Jun 27, 2007 | Announcements, Politics, Public Health, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
We all know that black people die sooner, are more likely to be afflicted with a range of ills, and less likely to get care. Some of this is pure economics. But this dynamic goes up the socio-economic scale, indicating that this is not just “class” by...
by admin | Jun 5, 2007 | Public Health, Racial Politics |
A growing group of scholars have been studying the health disparities between African Americans and their European American counterparts on the one hand, on the disparities between African Americans and their Caribbean and Continental American counterparts on the...
by admin | Sep 26, 2006 | Public Health |
While waiting two hours in a Lake County Ill hospital complaining of severe pain, Beatrice (ed.–previously i wrote “beverly”) Vance died of a heart attack. This after she clearly reported symptoms that indicated that a heart attack was imminent (ed....
by admin | Jul 27, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
I got word today that a brother I knew indirectly (he was a member of one of the black fraternities at Michigan, and I knew some of the people he pledged with) killed himself and his wife in a murder-suicide. He left behind three children (who were in the home locked...
by admin | Jul 11, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm
A journal article published in the JAMA found that even though Americans spend double the resources on health care, they are still sicker than their British counterparts. Even after you take race and class into account. White executives in America are sicker than...
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