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As States Push for Police Accountability, Advocates Focus on Black Trauma
The Rev. JeVon Marshall, who advocates for therapy for his congregation, stands outside of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Walls, Mississippi, where he is a pastor. Marshall and other advocates and professionals argue strongly for additional mental health and financial aid measures to address the trauma Black people face because of policing issues.
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Editor’s note: If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255. Other mental health resources can be found below.
When a jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd, a Black man, by pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, the Rev. Earle Fisher was unsure how to process the news an uneasiness felt by many Black Americans.
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VIDEO: This video is a map of edge density, a measure of the density of white matter connections between different brain regions. The color scale goes from dark purple where there. view more
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A new University of Iowa study challenges the idea that gray matter (the neurons that form the cerebral cortex) is more important than white matter (the myelin covered axons that physically connect neuronal regions) when it comes to cognitive health and function. The findings may help neurologists better predict the long-term effects of strokes and other forms of traumatic brain injury.
The Daily Yonder Q&A: Writer Chris Dennis on Place, Identity, and a Crippling Sense of Predestination If you wanted to exit the matrix of rural consciousness, there were only a couple ways out, but Dennis found a path that was purpose-driven and allowed him to stay connected to his community.
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I deleted my Facebook over a year ago. For me, it was the last of the brain-eating media to go. I thought it was benign, that it held nothing of interest to me and therefore couldn’t be instrumentalized for the postponement of getting out of bed in the morning, or reading past paragraph one.
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An analysis of fecal samples shows New England rural elites had parasitic infections.
In June 2019, the Digging Dartmouth project is set up on the lawn outside Dartmouth Library s Baker-Berry Library and the former site of the Ripley/Choate House. (Photo by Eli Burakian 00)
Jesse Casana, professor and chair of the department of anthropology (on the left); Keira Byno 19; and Elise Laugier, a graduate student student in Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society (standing in the privy); work on excavating the privy once attached to the Ripley/Choate House. (Photo by Eli Burakian 00)
Updated: 6:15 PM CDT May 6, 2021 WDSU Digital Team William Tate IV was named as the next president of LSU on Thursday, LSU said. When he begins his term in July, he will becomes the first Black president of a university in the Southeastern Conference. Now the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at University of South Carolina, Tate also holds the USC Education Foundation Distinguished Professorship. Tate earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a past president of the American Educational Research Association and was elected to the National Academy of Education.Tate will take the helm of the university as it deals with a public reckoning over the mishandling of sexual assault and violence allegations on campus. LSU law professor Tom Galligan has served as the university s president on an interim basis since January 2020. The last person to serve in the permanent role was F. King Alexander, who was president fr