SAN DIEGO
There’s a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King that especially resonates with Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s health officer.
“Dr. King once said that of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane,” Wooten said Thursday night.
Those words have guided her mission to serve the residents of San Diego County, she said.
“I awake every day with the goal of helping all communities attain their full potential and well-being,” she said.
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Wooten was honored with the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King’s Human Dignity Award for her leadership as the county’s public health officer during an unprecedented pandemic that has claimed the lives of 2,005 people in the region.
Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
Mary Catherine Bateson at her home in New Hampshire in 2010. In “Composing a Life,” about the stop-and-start nature of women’s lives, she wrote of life “as an improvisatory art.”Credit.Trent Bell for The New York Times
Published Jan. 14, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021
Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America died on Jan. 2 in Lebanon, N.H. She was 81.
The teen, not wanting to hurt her mother, told her the truth – sort of – by implying that “maybe it’s just a phase that she was going through. Yet, Carlysia knew in her heart-of-hearts that she loved women.
Actually, Carlene got a heads up about her daughter after Carlene’s sister saw social media photos of Carlysia and her then-girlfriend. Carlysia was attending Spelman College in Atlanta.
“My mom took it really hard in the beginning,” Carlysia said in an article at Iloveoldschool.com. “Then my grandpops Eddie found out and it unraveled from there.”
The word was that Grandpa Eddie wasn’t happy about his granddaughter’s sexual preference, but never told her so directly, according to Carlysia. Instead, Eddie expressed his feelings, privately, to Carlysia’s mother. Gerald Levert’s son, LeMicah, intervened in the matter, hoping to be a buffer that would convince his grandfather that Carlysia was still a good-hearted person and nothing should ch
Raphael Warnock is the latest HBCU grad to make history in US politics
The Rev. Raphael Warnock is the latest HBCU grad breaking barriers and standing up to shape the nation.
Students and alumni from historically Black colleges and universities around the country are celebrating Warnock winning his US Senate race in Georgia, hoping it will change the misconceptions around the institutions’ quality of education and graduates’ social mobility.
Warnock, a Morehouse College alum, has regularly credited his education as he was the first in his family to graduate college.
“I went to Morehouse College on a ‘full faith’ scholarship. I didn’t know how I would pay for it but I graduated college, earned a Ph.D. degree,” he said in a campaign ad.
Right now, people can’t stop talking about one woman: Stacey Abrams. The US politician and activist has largely been credited with recent voting successes for the Democrats in the formerly red state of Georgia. On 6 January, Black voters turned out in record numbers for Georgia’s crucial Senate runoff elections. According to the
Associated Press, 4.4 million votes were cast. The outcome? Democratic Senate candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeated the Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
People were quick to make sure that Abrams was congratulated for the role she played in the historic moment (Warnock and Ossoff are Georgia’s first Black and first Jewish senators, respectively). For years, she has been fighting against voter suppression, advocating for fair elections and encouraging people to get out and vote. The former Georgia state representative was instrumental in turning Georgia blue in the November presidential election. The state hadn’