by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Among the 10 people who will decide whether to pay members of Boston’s black community are two high schoolers and one college student.High school juniors Damani Williams and Denilson Fanfan, as well as 22-year-old University of Massachusetts student and...
by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
The outcomes for children of abuse are grim. Compared to the general population of children with traumatic injuries, suspected child abuse victims were younger (a median age of 2 years old versus 10 years), more likely to have public insurance (77% versus 43%) and...
by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
A new podcast out today called “Alphabet Boys” documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, including paying an informant at least $20,000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver, Colorado. The...
by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Race-based trauma is increasingly recognized within psychology as a distinct type of trauma, resulting in post-traumatic stress symptoms (Chin et al., 2020, p. 9), including hyper-vigilance (Carter et al., 2005; Carter and Forsyth, 2010) and dissociation...
by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Portraiture celebrating men who owned people has gazed down upon visitors to the U.S. Capitol for generations. But interestingly and tellingly, the slaver portraits had never been cataloged until December, when Washington Post history reporter Gillian Brockell found...
by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
President Joe Biden called for law enforcement to be held to higher standards in his State of the Union address Tuesday — exactly a month after Memphis police fatally beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.“All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this...