Police violence and racism in general can be insidious threats to a Black woman s reproductive health, damaging her own well-being and possibly even the DNA of her children, growing research shows.
Transgenerational trauma – defined as trauma that passes through generations – has long been documented in descendants of enslaved people, refugees and Holocaust survivors.
In the case of Black women who have witnessed the countless deaths and injuries of Black people at the hands of police, or been hurt themselves, their children may be unintentional genetic recipients of their wounds, both psychological and physiological. And in some cases, it s making them think twice about having children.
Struggling renters living in largely rural Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are among those receiving the most COVID-19 rental assistance in the country.
Rural poverty rates in the U.S. are higher than in urban areas – 16.1% compared to 12.6%, according to the 2018 American Community Survey – but the primary reason these renters are seeing more dollars is the way the Emergency Rental Assistance Program is being administered by the Treasury Department.
A February analysis by USA TODAY of all 50 states showed that renters living in rural states that have majority white populations were disproportionately receiving the most federal rental assistance from the first $25 billion made available in December. Vermont, for example, was among the top three states in the country receiving substantially more money per eligible renter, the analysis found.
Private colleges and universities in New England were some of the first to announce they ll require vaccination for all students returning to campus this fall. Some of the region s state colleges and universities have also begun to follow suit – but not all of them.
State universities in Massachusetts are leading the way with vaccine mandates, while university systems in neighboring states have been less explicit. At least one has said it will wait until permanent approval of the COVID-19 vaccines by the Food and Drug Administration before considering a requirement for students.
Many Massachusetts state universities are requiring the COVID vaccine
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Younger children have historically taken major developmental cues from their older peers. Perhaps something we took for granted pre-COVID was the natural interaction of children of different ages inside schools and during extracurricular activities.
Insert the pandemic, and those interactions ceased. Feared now are potential social stunts, as younger children have missed out on key social experiences typically gained inside a school building environment, on the bus, during play dates, or on sports teams and in summer camps.
Hummingbird migration season is upon us, and a slew of sightings of the ruby-throated breed have already occurred across New England.
Humingbirdcentral.com tracks sightings of the magical fluttering birds across the country, as they move north after spending the winter in Central America or Mexico.
Male hummingbirds can arrive in the U.S. as early as February at their breeding grounds in the southern portion of the country, before later coming north in the spring.
Representing single sightings, hummingbirds have already been spotted as north as Glover, Vermont and Machias, Maine over the course of April, signaling to a slightly earlier migration than usual. Even people in Nova Scotia have already reported hummingbird sightings, not expecting their arrival until around Mother s Day.