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Covers South Asians in the house! — my cousin cheers between mouthfuls of samosa and peanut chutney as Kamala Harris is sworn in as Vice President of the United States on screen. It’s a day as celebratory as it is surreal — especially for the ‘South Asians in the house’, who are scattered across the country watching one of the most unprecedented inaugurations in history. I knew I was going to see a female president or vice-president hold that Bible on camera during my lifetime. The wo...

Harris has leaned into being the first woman and first woman of color in the role to connect with groups that will be key to the administrations success as the recovery unfolds.

Pop-up clinics help, but technology, misinformation, other barriers to COVID vaccination remain for Oneida Countys underserved population

Equity Task Force update provided to Purdue Board of Trustees Note to journalists: Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue trustees on Friday (Feb. 5) heard an update from Don Thompson, chair of the universitys Equity Task Force, as trustees move to evaluate findings and consider implementation plans. Mike Berghoff, chair of the board of trustees, said board members will now examine the findings of the task force then direct its recom...

The racial inequities that have been brought into stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic are again being made painfully apparent in the current phase of vaccine distribution.

If his recklessness weren't so deadly to Floridians, cherubic-faced Gov. Ron DeSantis might seem amusing when he gets angry. For instance, when he recently chastised journalists: "You can whiz on my leg but don't tell me it's raining." More accurately, DeSantis pretends to be angry on camera. It helps him deliver mini Trump-like rants against the media — and last week, against political ...

How does that feel? I’m incredibly proud and honored to take on this role and I am grateful to be welcomed as a guest in this territory; the Chickasaw homeland is in the South Eastern United States, and my Reservation is in Oklahoma. That medicine line—or border—between the United States and Canada is a colonial construct, but when I think about Indigenous leadership of our cultural institutions, I’m still dreaming of Indigenous folx guiding the vision of the galleries and museums in ou...

Martinez had been working on other national task forces, including with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the secretary of health and human services. He also has been working with the chair of the task force, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, on how to increase the number of minorities working in health care. Martinez will continue to be the executive director of the Hogg Foundation while workin...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and vaccine news from the White House highlight another week in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. New CDC Findings and Recommendations According to guidance released by the CDC last week, those who have been fully vaccinated for at least two weeks do not need to quarantine if exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual. A CDC study also found that double-masking can redu...

Friday, February 12, 2021 New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and vaccine news from the White House highlight another week in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. New CDC Findings and Recommendations According to guidance released by the CDC last week, those who have been fully vaccinated for at least two weeks do not need to quarantine if exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual. A CDC study also found that double-masking can reduce exposure by 95%. To ge...