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Black Women Who Experience Racism Are At Higher Risk For Future Health Problems – Brain Scans Show Trauma-Like Effects

15Sep

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Journalism

Black Women Who Experience Racism Are At Higher Risk For Future Health Problems – Brain Scans Show Trauma-Like Effects

Sierra Carter, Georgia State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Black women who have experienced more racism throughout their lives have stronger brain responses to threat, which may hurt their long-term health, according to a new study I conducted with clinical neuropsychologist Negar Fani and other colleagues. I am part of a research team that for more than 15 years has studied the ways stress related to trauma exposure can affect the mind and body. In our recent study, we took a closer look at a stressor that Black Americans disproportionately face in the U.S.: racism. My colleagues and I completed research with 55 Black women who reported how much they’d been exposed to traumatic experiences, such as childhood abuse and physic...

According To A New Survey – Black, Hispanic And Asian American Donors Give More To Strangers In Need As Well As Social And Racial Justice Causes

13Sep

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Journalism, SOCIAL JUSTICE

According To A New Survey – Black, Hispanic And Asian American Donors Give More To Strangers In Need As Well As Social And Racial Justice Causes

Wendy Chen, Texas Tech University and Una Osili, IUPUI More than a year after protesters around the world responded to the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and other people of color, U.S. donors of all backgrounds are still responding to calls for an end to deep-rooted racial inequities. To learn more about these giving patterns, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy teamed up with the nonpartisan research organization NORC at the University of Chicago to survey 1,535 Americans from Sept. 14 to Oct. 6, 2020. Our survey, which has a margin of sampling error for all respondents of plus or minus 5 percentage points, indicates that giving to racial and social justice is on the rise – especially among donors of color. We highlighted these find...

How Far Has The Black Lives Matter Movement Come?

9Sep

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

How Far Has The Black Lives Matter Movement Come?

Kwasi Konadu, Colgate University and Bright Gyamfi, Northwestern University Black Lives Matter has been called the largest civil movement in U.S. history. Since 2013, local BLM chapters have formed nationwide to demand accountability for the killings of dozens of African Americans by police and others. Since the summer of 2020, when tens of millions in the U.S. and around the world marched under the “Black Lives Matter” slogan to protest a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd, the movement has risen to a new level of prominence, funding and scrutiny. BLM has long been seen as a coordinated yet decentralized effort. Lately, the movement and its leading organizations have become more traditional and hierarchical in structure. Public opinion is also changing, as BLM chapters ...

Unemployment Is Up For Black Women As Hospitality And Retail Stopped Adding Jobs In August

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Unemployment Is Up For Black Women As Hospitality And Retail Stopped Adding Jobs In August

Social Issues - Growth in the industries that had helped women regain jobs in the labor force this year ground to a halt in August, as the spread of the Delta variant drove business closures. Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th After months of adding jobs, the industries that have helped women return to the labor force — hospitality, retail and education — suddenly took a dip. The hospitality industry, one of the largest employers of women in the country, has been adding 350,000 jobs a month on average over the past six months. In August, job growth was completely flat. The entertainment sector gained 36,000 positions but food and drink services lost 42,000, according to the latest data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Friday. Similarly, the retail sect...

Our Children Are Being Suspended For Petty Reasons – Forcing Black Parents To Take Off From Work And Sometimes Lose Their Jobs

24Aug

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Journalism

Our Children Are Being Suspended For Petty Reasons – Forcing Black Parents To Take Off From Work And Sometimes Lose Their Jobs

Journalism Charles Bell, Illinois State University When “Mike,” the father of a ninth grade student, got a call from his daughter’s school, the first thing he asked was: “How important is this?” “They said, ‘Well, it’s important,’” Mike told me during an interview for my research. When Mike went to his daughter’s school to see what was the problem, school officials told him his daughter was being suspended for giving a boy a hug. He ended up missing out on some of his hourly wages to deal with the situation. “I was like, ‘Nah. Not only am I missing out on some hours at work, I’m missing out on some important meetings, and also commitments that I have made, to come up here and talk about suspensions, a five-day suspension for giving somebody a hug,” Mike told me. “That’s one of the thi...

‘Black Women Being Trailblazers’: Spelman Faculty Refuse To Teach In Person As Classes Begin

24Aug

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EDUCATION

‘Black Women Being Trailblazers’: Spelman Faculty Refuse To Teach In Person As Classes Begin

Education Though vaccinations and masks are required on campus, concerns about COVID-19 protocols remain as the Delta variant rages through Georgia. Orion Rummler Originally published by The 19th Spelman College’s faculty council, the organizing arm for professors at the influential historically Black women’s college, told students on Thursday morning that they would no longer teach in-person classes, citing a lack of “clear and enforceable” safety guidelines from the school administration, per an email obtained by The 19th. Classes at the college began Wednesday. Spelman, located in Atlanta, is one of the first colleges or universities to feel this kind of pressure from faculty this fall after thousands of instructors at American colleges took a similar stand last summer. “Our profe...

America’s First Known Black Master Distiller – The Story Of Nearest Green

5Apr

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BUSINESS

America’s First Known Black Master Distiller – The Story Of Nearest Green

On The Record Stefanie Benjamin, University of Tennessee When you hear the name Jack Daniel, whiskey probably comes to mind. But what about the name Nathan “Uncle Nearest” Green? In 2016, The New York Times published a story about the distiller’s “hidden ingredient” – “help from a slave.” In the article, the brand officially acknowledged that an enslaved man, Nearest Green, taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. Since then, scholars, researchers and journalists have descended upon Lynchburg, Tennessee, hoping to learn more about a man who, until then, had appeared as a mere appendage in the story of the country’s most popular whiskey brand. As a scholar of tourism whose research involves highlighting marginalized populations and counternarratives, I followed these developments with k...

For Many Black Parents, Barriers To Mental Health Care Begin Before The First Call For Help

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

For Many Black Parents, Barriers To Mental Health Care Begin Before The First Call For Help

Black people who need help during or after pregnancy face hurdles with cultural differences that affect diagnosis, a fear of overpolicing, and medical professionals who may not have the resources -- or interest. Candice Norwood Originally published by The 19th Cinnamon Foster knew something was off after she had her daughter two and a half years ago. She would go from crying uncontrollably one day to feeling inexplicably angry on another. She was anxious and stressed and did not have close family nearby, she said, but the first-time mom swept her feelings under the rug because she felt like she had to be a superhero. It wasn’t until Foster’s obstetrician suggested she might be experiencing postpartum depression that she decided to find a therapist. “I am a firm believer that my mood c...

Organizing And Math Literacy For Black Students – Bob Moses Played Critical Role In Civil Rights

29Jul

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Organizing And Math Literacy For Black Students – Bob Moses Played Critical Role In Civil Rights

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure the right to vote. But it would be tutoring students in math 20 years later at his daughter’s racially mixed middle school in Massachusetts that would lead to his life’s work – The Algebra Project. The Algebra Project is a nonprofit dedicated to helping students from historically marginalized communities develop math literacy, which is an individual’s ability to formulate, employ and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts. Moses founded it in 1982. After researching Moses’ role in the civil rights movement for my book – “Bloody Lowndes:...

Sarah Baartman’s Hips Went From A Symbol Of Exploitation To A Source Of Empowerment For Black Women

15Jul

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Sarah Baartman’s Hips Went From A Symbol Of Exploitation To A Source Of Empowerment For Black Women

Rokeshia Renné Ashley, Florida International University In “BLACK EFFECT,” a track from Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 2018 collaborative album “EVERYTHING IS LOVE,” Beyoncé describes a quintessential Black female form: Stunt with your curls, your lips, Sarah Baartman hips Gotta hop into my jeans like I hop into my whip, yeah The celebration of Sarah Baartman’s features marks a departure from her historical image. Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman who, in the early 1800s, was something of an international sensation of objectification. She was paraded around Europe, where spectators jeered at her large buttocks. With celebrities like Beyoncé recognizing Baartman’s contributions to the ideal Black female body – and with the curvaceous posteriors of Black women lauded on TV and celebrat...