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My book recently came out, and I have been amazed at the power of a mere high school English teacher who initially thought she’d write a quiet book about her heroic grandfather.
A social studies teacher from my high school district told me, “Good history confronts a bad past, and that’s what your book is doing.”
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By Victor Omondi
Black people have been experiencing widespread racism and discrimination across the European nations, affecting literally every aspect of their lives. The discrimination cuts across education, employment, policing, and the criminal justice system.
To justify US and European military occupation of much of Africa, migrants seeking jobs in the north of the continent or in Europe “are labeled as criminals and terrorists” when they’re “just looking for work,” said Ampson Hagan, a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hagan went on to highlight the distance and the challenging moments the migrants face, the time they spend to travel in search of jobs, only to be labeled as ‘terrorist.’ Hagan asks: “What does it mean for Europe to be policing African migration within Africa?”
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COVID Racial Disparities Loom Large in Rural Counties
An assisted living employee in Mississippi receives a COVID-19 vaccine from a Walgreens pharmacist in January. As federal and state government officials ramp up vaccination efforts, White people outpace people of color in getting vaccinated.
Rogelio V. Solis
The Associated Press
CLARKSDALE, Miss. In the early days of the pandemic, Greenwood, Mississippi, native Jackie Hawkins, a long-time rural public policy expert, expected that rural people of color would be hurt at higher rates than their urban and White counterparts.
As the pandemic set in, fear and hesitancy settled into Black communities relatively quickly, she said, because of the lack of information around the coronavirus, and because of years of fraught relationships with health care providers.