When Europe was hit with plague in the 14th century, the Church offered its frightened followers indulgences, not spiritual comfort, a pattern that Haredi leaders are repeating today. But the influence peddling may be hitting a wall
By Cherranda Smith
Mar 4, 2021
Black and Brown people who give birth now have access to a new digital platform where they can rate and review their experiences with Ob/Gyns, hospitals, and pediatricians.
Irth –– Birth without the B for bias –– was launched by Narrative Nation, Inc. a New York City-based Black woman-owned tech nonprofit that addresses health disparities through community discussion and technology.
Kimberly Seals Allers, the app’s founder and five-time author, was inspired to launch Irth after her own experience giving birth to her first child.
“When I had my first child, I asked white co-workers and friends for recommendations, read all the ‘Best of’ lists for hospitals, and was excited to deliver at a highly-ranked institution. Instead, I left feeling dismissed, disrespected, and traumatized. Exactly opposite to what my white peers had experienced. At that time in my life, I was not yet married and was finishing graduate school, and was th
As schools reopen, Asian American students are missing from classrooms
Moriah Balingit, Hannah Natanson and Yutao Chen, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
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Nancy Lin, left, with her kids, Miranda Gao, 12, and Stanley Gao, 13, in Philadelphia. She decided to maintain their remote education because of issues with a school building s condition.Photo by Rachel Wisniewski for The Washington Post.
It s happening in well-to-do Pakistani households in the suburbs of Washington and among Chinese restaurant workers in Philadelphia. It s happening among weary Filipino nurses in Queens, Hmong refugee families in Minneapolis and in Silicon Valley s Asian American community.
As school buildings start to reopen, Asian and Asian American families are choosing to keep their children learning from home at disproportionately high rates. They say they are worried about elderly parents in cramped, multigenerational households, distrustful of promised safety measures and afraid t
Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard on Thirty Years of Composing Beautiful Music
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Spike Lee calls his 30-year collaboration with composer Terence Blanchard “a match made in heaven.”
The two have worked together on 17 films and three television projects including their most recent collaboration, “Da 5 Bloods.” Written and directed by Lee, it stars Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Norm Lewis, Isiah Witlock Jr., Clarke Peters and Chadwick Boseman.
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Hot off winning the Academy Award for adapted screenplay for “BlacKkKlansman,” Lee moved onto “Da 5 Bloods” with Blanchard on board to score.
“I feel like Spike is the type of artist who never stands still and is never satisfied with something he’s done before,” says the composer. “He’s always upping his game.”
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