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After weeks of Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis decided he d seen enough of agitators, as he called them, who were bent on sowing disorder and causing mayhem.
There had been at least 79 demonstrations in Florida in the two months since George Floyd had died in Minneapolis, including some that turned violent. Amid a citywide curfew in Tampa, protesters traded rocks, bottles and glass for pepper spray and rubber bullets from law enforcement. At least one protester was hit in the head by a rubber bullet.
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Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, former president of Brown University and The New York Public Library, illustrious scholar, and steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy dies at age 87
Vartan Gregorian, a distinguished historian and humanities scholar and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. During his tenure, from 1997 to the present, he championed the causes of education, immigration, and international peace and security key concerns of the foundation’s founder, Andrew Carnegie. Like Carnegie, Gregorian was a naturalized United States citizen, whose experiences in a new country helped shape him, including his belief in the great importance of immigrant civic integration to the health of American democracy. Gregorian died on April 15, 2021, in New York City at age 87. He had been hospitalized for testing related to stomach pain.
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California research team awarded $1.7 million for research on racism and COVID-19 crisis communication Sydney Kurle | Apr 15, 2021
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The team, co-led by Dr. Monica Ponder, Assistant Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Communication, Culture & Media Studies at Howard University, and Dr. Chandra Ford, professor of Community Health Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), will leverage a decade of experience tracking racism as a public health issue.
The endeavor, dubbed Project Racial Ethnic Framing of Community-Informed and Unifying Surveillance (REFOCUS), tracks the intersecting pandemics of racism, especially as expressed through stigma, and COVID-19, with a focus on providing information to the communities most directly impacted. Key concerns include stereotypes about the origins of cor