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CBS News Racism's corrosive impact on the health of Black Americans Bill Whitaker reports on how decades of research show that racism is adversely affecting Black Americans' health in several different ways. 2021 Apr 18 When the Centers for Disease Control declared last week that racism is a serious public health threat in America, it acknowledged something that researchers have found for decades: on nearly every measure of health, African Americans are more prone to serious disease and premature death. The coronavirus pandemic has provided devastating evid...

On a typical April weekend in the past, Candace “Chainsaw” Moser would be whirling around a roller derby track, smashing into competitors. But with the Ohio Roller Derby league now in its second season of hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moser instead on Saturday was walking along S. 17th Street on the South Side, picking up cigarette butts and candy wrappers. Along with her husband, Drew Stafford, and daughter Ember Stafford, 12, Moser was among about a half-dozen of her roller derby teammates who joined Saturday’s cleanup, organized by the nonprofit volunteer group Green Colu...

'Pure stupidity': Cork club blasts 'mindless' vandalism at its facilities  John Bohane RIVERSTOWN FC chairperson John O’Connor has expressed his disappointment at the ‘disgraceful’ events which have occurred at their facilities in recent weeks. Significant damage and vandalism have taken place at the Community Grounds in Glanmire. This has included broken glass on the grass playing surfaces, broken bottles on the car park, fires set on the new car park, protective netting slashed, new fencing is broken, hundreds of bottles thrown on the club grounds, and litter covering the entire faci...