Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa (Published 2015)
The Smithsonian will announce Tuesday that the wreckage of a vessel that sank in 1794 has been found, the first time a slaving ship that went down with slaves aboard has been recovered.
In the past, busloads of former detainees have attended a remembrance ceremony at the Granada War Relocation Center. But this year only two people who had lived there could make the trek.
Some Twitter users lashed out in sometimes profanity-laced replies that exhort the president, who is using @POTUS, to kill himself and worse.
When the Bronx Zoo exhibited a man in an iron cage - CNN
The exhibition of Ota Benga in a zoo in 1906 is a stark example of the recent history of racial attitudes.
Pamela Newkirk engrossingly transforms what was billed in 1906 as a lesson in ethnography into a larger window on racism.
Opinion | Housing Apartheid, American Style (Published 2015)
For fair housing rules to be meaningful, the federal government will have to restructure its own programs.
Opinion | The Case for Black Doctors (Published 2015)
Black patients are more likely to trust them, and to become healthier.
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Southern integration through the eyes of a child
Sometimes i Feel Like a Motherless Child - Charlie Haden and Hank Jones-Steal Away
I have no rights for this content. Buy the CD, well worth it.STEAL AWAY was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individ...
Northern Ireland Guest Visit Mona Center & MORE
Two faculty from the University of Ulster came to USA for research collaboration with Maryland Center for Health Equity April 4, 2017 to April 7, 2017 For Background visit: research.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=9575
Fearless Class Mona Center Site Visit 10 21 16
Students made their first visit to the neighborhood and conducted interviews with local residents and business owners. They did a great job ! Public Health HLSA484: Redesigning Health Care – Developing a Clinic to Meet Community Needs Open to all majors Instructor(s): Stephen Thomas, Luisa Franzini, and Dylan Roby Do you want to play a part in redesigning our broken health care system? There is a great new course where you work with patients in an actual community health clinic to understand…
The Brennan Center for Justice responds to an Op-Ed article.
How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison
In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, "Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?"
Canada's decades-long government policy requiring Canadian First Nation children to attend state-funded church schools amounted to
Violence in black community threatens the greatest civil right — life