“Racism is not just police brutality," says Dr. Rechina Bicette, a Black doctor who's currently Associate Medical Director of Emergency Medicine for Baylor St. Lukes in the Houston Medical Center. "It’s not just unfair housing practices, but those systematic injustices filter down to the medical field as well.”
Poet Richard Blanco to speak at Colby College’s 200th commencement ceremonies May 23
The speaker at baccalaureate ceremonies May 22 will be higher education authority Charles Terrell who, along with Erin French, owner of the Lost Kitchen restaurant in Freedom, Nobel Prize winning geneticist and chronobiologist Michael Rosbach and Theresa Secord, award-winning Penobscot basket maker and founding director of Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, will receive honorary doctorates.
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WATERVILLE Poet Richard Blanco will deliver the commencement address May 23 at Colby College’s 200th commencement ceremonies, to be held in person at the Mayflower Hill campus, the college announced Thursday.
Texas Physician Makes History as 9th Black Female Pediatric Surgeon In the U.S., Recalls Being Asked If She Was There to Change the Sheets During Residency
Black women are slowly but surely diversifying the medical field as the U.S. recognizes its ninth Black female pediatric surgeon:
Dr. Kanika Bowen-Jallow.
Dr. Bowen-Jallow is continuing to blaze the trail first scorched by Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan in 2004. While joining the elite ranks of Black medical professionals is a remarkable feat, the Texas native can’t help but to acknowledge how many more people from her background could be standing alongside her.
While the vast majority of the likely hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who contracted COVID-19 on the job are eligible for workers' compensation, most have not applied and only a fraction of those have received it.