Dr. Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health, wins $1 million Berggruen Prize
Farmer chairs the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Womenâs Hospital.
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated December 16, 2020, 10:22 a.m.
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Dr. Paul Farmer sat by the Tengeh Town Bridge during a visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2015.Jon Lascher/Jon Lascher / PIH
Dr. Paul Farmer, the cofounder of Partners in Health and longtime advocate for access to quality health care in some of the worldâs most impoverished countries, has won the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, the Berggruen Institute announced.
People across the nation are taking part in the âRun for RBGâ 5K, in memory of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Proceeds go towards organizations that support women s rights and empowerment, such as the National Organization for Women, the Foundation for Womenâs Cancer and Girls Who Code.
Fifth grader Lucy Spangler after taking part in the virtual Run for RBG 5K. Photo courtesy of Troy Schools and the Spangler family
One of the 5K runners was Lucy Spangler, a fifth grader at Hamilton Elementary School in Troy.
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Spangler first learned about Ginsburg during a road trip with her family while listening to a podcast based on the book âBedtime Stories for Rebel Girls.â Even since, Ginsburg has been Spanglerâs role model.
More than 7 in 10 voters said they heard “a lot” about the deaths of Kobe Bryant and George Floyd, more than any other news events in 2020.
The coronavirus, the presidential election and the Black Lives Matter movement resonated deeply with the American public throughout the year.
America’s near-war with Iran and the divisive Washington fight over whether to remove President Donald Trump from office would be enough to define most years. But they are mere footnotes in 2020, which came to be defined by a resurgent civil rights movement and a deadly global pandemic that upended a pivotal presidential election.
Throughout the year, Morning Consult surveyed roughly 100,000 registered voters about how much they’d seen, read or heard about more than 370 events that drove the news at the time of weekly polls. This analysis which measures the salience of events by looking at what voters contemporaneously said they had heard “a lot” about is based on a curated list of 132 ev
Conservative SCOTUS Announces Another Pro-LGBTQ+ Decision
Indiana officials were seeking to undermine marriage equality, but the justices refused to hear the case.
Pictured: Jackie and Lisa Phillips-Stackman, one of the couples in the Indiana case, with their daughter
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a case from Indiana that could have undermined marriage equality, as it sought to reverse a lower court’s ruling that both same-sex parents have to be listed on a child’s birth certificate.
The court Monday included the case,
Box v. Henderson, on a list of those it had turned down. It did so without comment, as is usually the practice. The justices’ vote was unanimous, despite the presence of three Trump appointees that gave the court a 6-3 conservative majority, the
Gone too soon: Celebrities who died in 2020
We’re taking a moment to reflect on some of the celebrities that we’ve lost this year
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LEFT: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers smiles in the fourth quarter during the game against the Chicago Bulls on November 19, 2009. MIDDLE: Kelly Preston attends the welcome party in Cannes, France on May 21, 2014. RIGHT: Chadwick Boseman attends the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018. (Getty Images)
Saying goodbye to those we love is never easy, even when it comes to icons and celebrities.
Although we may not know these individuals on a personal level, it’s still an adjustment to not see them grace the red carpet or the big screen again.