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Medicaid Sabotage

Medicaid was enacted in 1965 under the Lyndon Johnson administration as a social insurance program to provide lower-income Americans with the health care they need. Since then it has been solidly supported by all subsequent administrations as a social contract within our society, as a matter of fairness and necessity. As poverty and inequality have […]

January 22, 2018

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HHS Protects Workers Who Object to Medical Procedures

The Trump Administration’s Health and Human Services Department is creating new protections for moral and religious health care workers that will allow them to opt of out participating in medical procedures that violate their spiritual beliefs like abortions and assisted suicides. However, activists and liberal politicians fear such policies will also allow medical professionals to […]

January 22, 2018

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Drug Under Study Could Stop Cancer

A cancer drug is in development that could stop the disease in its tracks. The unnamed medication targets a specific enzyme that fuels the spread of tumours, new research reveals. It does this by binding to the membrane of rapidly multiplying cells, a European study found. Read More

January 22, 2018

Smoking, Obesity Fuel Increase in Diabetes in South

Rising obesity rates in several Southern states are leading to a rapid increase in new cases of diabetes among both black and white adults. A new study led by investigators at the University of Texas Health Science Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) found the risk of diabetes is double for black patients. Read […]

January 22, 2018

Why Are Thousands of Babies Dying in U.S.?

The U.S. is one of the wealthiest and most influential nations in the world. Yet, for some reason, it’s still struggling in meaningful ways with protecting our children. A new study, which analyzed childhood mortality rates of 19 economically similar countries between 1961 and 2010, revealed that, despite making improvements, the U.S. is lagging behind. […]

January 22, 2018

Black Children Face Higher Death Risk After Surgery

Memphis, Tenn. – A recent study, Race, Preoperative Risk Factors, and Death After Surgery, has found that black children are more than twice as likely to die following surgery than white children and describes race-specific models to predict surgical outcomes. The study has been published online, and will be published in the February 2018 issue […]

January 22, 2018

Podcast Examines Myths about Black Males

The Black Boys & Men: Changing the Narrative podcast series brings together thought leaders from the public and private sectors to analyze stereotypes and dispel myths concerning Black boys and men, while providing facts and best practices for those working with these often marginalized populations. The series calls into question issues of systemic racism and […]

January 22, 2018

2 Dozen Senators Question Medicaid Work Rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s new policy allowing state work requirements for Medicaid recipients is legally questionable, more than two dozen Democratic senators said Thursday, framing an argument likely to be aired in court. The senators’ letter to acting health secretary Eric Hargan reads like a memo to legal groups preparing a court challenge […]

January 22, 2018

White House Denies Heart Disease Claim

The White House on Wednesday pushed back against reports suggesting that President Trump may have a form of heart disease after the president’s doctor claimed that his patient’s health was “excellent.” In a press briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the administration stood by the assessment of Trump’s doctor, Navy Rear […]

January 22, 2018

2018 Emerging Scholars

Fifteen minority scholars doing remarkable interdisciplinary work in the academic sphere.

January 22, 2018

Julius Lester, Dead at 78

Julius Lester, a nationally known author, musician, activist and photographer, died last week at the age of 78.

January 21, 2018

Cornel West Reflects on 25th Anniversary of Seminal Book ‘Race Matters’

An interview with Dr. Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Race Matters.

January 21, 2018

2016 Summer TCA Tour – Day 3

Del Pilar Works to Give Underrepresented Students Voice in Higher Ed

As the vice president of higher education policy and practice at The Education Trust, Dr. Wil Del Pilar brings to the job years of experience in research and policy.

January 21, 2018

U.S. Marches For Women’s Rights, Slam Trump, Encourage Voting

LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators from Los Angeles to New York marched in support of female empowerment and denounced President Donald Trump’s views on immigration, abortion, LGBT rights and women’s rights on Saturday, the anniversary of his inauguration. People marched in Casper, Wyo., and Cambridge, Mass., and in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Houston. In Park City, Utah, […]

January 21, 2018

UMass Gets Chan Zuckerberg Grant For Scientific Project

AMHERST, Mass. — The University of Massachusetts has received a $5.5 million grant from a philanthropy founded by the man behind Facebook and his wife to create a way to search millions of scientific research articles. The grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to UMass’s Center for Data Science will create the Computable Knowledge project […]

January 21, 2018

Study: Farmers Don’t Have Enough Access to Mental Health

LAKE BETON, Minn. — A University of Minnesota study says farmers in the state may not be getting all the help they need to deal with the stress and mental strain of their jobs. Marizen Ramirez, who co-authored the study and is an epidemiologist at the university, told Minnesota Public Radio that farmers who live […]

January 21, 2018

Immigration Ensures Diversity

It is estimated that immigration to the North American continent began no later than 10,000 B.C./B.C.E. It has continued ever since, and by all knowledgeable accounts this continuous flow of people seeking a better life is what has made and continues to make America great. Immigration is good because it ensures diversity.

January 21, 2018

Innovation and Transformation

Here’s a puzzle: Americans love their own colleges and universities and yet are suspicious of and even disdainful of colleges and universities in general. Why is that? Polls show that the great majority of Americans who graduated from college are grateful they went to that college, felt they got their money’s worth, and would go […]

January 19, 2018