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Michigan to charge state’s top medical official in Flint water deaths | Reuters

October 18, 2017African American Health, African Health Care ...

(Reuters) – Michigan’s top medical official will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for her role in the city of Flint’s water crisis, which was linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that caused at least 12 deaths, state prosecutors said on Monday.

Toni Morrison’s Radical Vision of Otherness | New Republic

October 12, 2017October 12, 2017African American History, African American Literature ...

The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.

Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects | Black Perspectives

September 19, 2017African American Families, African American Lives ...

Policymakers assumed that if men were in the home, poor women on welfare would inevitably have more children and cost taxpayers more money. So by 1959, women headed the majority of households in Pruitt-Igoe.

‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’: Film Review | Venice 2017 | The Hollywood Reporter

September 12, 2017September 12, 2017African American Film, African American History ...

Documentarian Nancy Buirski traces this shameful 1944 incident and the legal fiasco that followed, honoring a woman of color who dared to speak out after being sexually assaulted by a group of white youths.

DOJ Won’t Prosecute Baltimore Officers In Freddie Gray Case | NPR

September 12, 2017African American Commuities, African American Families ...

The Department of Justice will not bring civil rights charges against six Baltimore police involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, the young black man whose death caused widespread violent protest in that city in 2015.

Life After the Storm: Children Who Survived Katrina Offer Lessons | The New York Times

September 12, 2017September 12, 2017African American Lives, KOLUMN ...

Although “trauma” can mean many things, and is generally considered destructive, its demands can force people to learn what their abilities are and which are most useful when all seems lost.