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Posted inHealth, Health Equity, Partner Content
Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in the humid breeze last August in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day on the city’s predominantly Black west side. As recently as five years ago, the event might have attracted an overwhelmingly white crowd. […]
Posted inBlack Migration, Partner Content
Black Americans Find a Racism Respite Through ‘Blaxit’
This article was originally published by The Emancipator, a nonprofit digital magazine that reimagines the nation’s first abolitionist newspapers for a new day. Twanna Hines watched her television in shock on Jan. 6, 2021, from her Washington, D.C., home as hundreds of people who believed the lie that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election […]
Posted inPartner Content, Transportation
Trump faults DEI hiring while discussing Washington plane crash
A close look at the FAA’s hiring policies under Obama, Biden and Trump shows that Trump mischaracterized the policies and misled about his actions and the actions of his White House predecessors. He also provided no evidence these policies had any connection to the fatal crash.
