What Price do Black People Pay for Hope in an Unequal Society?
BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich. – Weathering is a word – and a process – that works in contradictory ways. Biologically speaking, weathering can be good – until the price paid for it becomes too high. And then it turns bad. Arline Geronimus, Sc.D., the University of Michigan...
Arline Geronimus on What We Can Do to Combat ‘Weathering’
Lynn Todman (left), executive director for population health at Spectrum Health Lakeland in St. Joseph, Mich., poses with University of Michigan public health professor Arline Geronimus. Todman is heading a project to help close the wide gap in health outcomes between...
Shining a Bright Light on Whiteness
‘Waking Up White’ Author Invites White Audience Members to Look Inside By TED HARTZELL BENTON HARBOR, Mich.—You don’t get much whiter than Debby Irving. Her husband Bruce attests to this on the jacket of her book, “Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of...
Tips for How White People Can ‘Wake Up’
BENTON HARBOR, Mich.—There’s something that happened to Debby Irving a lot when she was signing copies of her book, “Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race,” after its publication in 2014. Invariably a white person would say to her: “You know, I...Healing the Trauma of Racism
In MI African-Americans are just fourteen percent of the state’s population they represent forty-one percent of its COVID-19 victims. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-coronavirus-and-inequality-meet-in-detroit?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned via @NewYorker
Inequality Intensifies the Coronavirus Crisis in Detroit https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-coronavirus-and-inequality-meet-in-detroit?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned via @NewYorker
72% of deaths from coronavirus are among African Americans, even though African Americans make up 30% of the population says Mayor Lori Lightfoot https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/chicago-mayor-breathtaking-that-african-americans-are-dying-of-covid-19-at-higher-rates-81719365556
Making a mask can be easy. Keep yourself and your family safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx1yqvJgf4
Black communities hit hardest across the Michigan https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/black-communities-hit-harder-coronavirus-michigan-not-just-detroit -
