The Coronavirus — and a Bit of Levity, Too
‘Community Influencer’ Ronnika (R.J.) Williams Works Out a Formula of Engagement with Her Facebook Audience BENTON HARBOR, Mich.— Sometimes you can serve up a serious message with a side order of humor. If you do it right, it makes for easier digestion. Ronnika (R.J.)...
Terry Stokes, in Short Takes
Terry Stokes in his apartment in Benton Harbor, Mich. Wide-Ranging Thoughts on Racism, American-Style An hour-and-a-half interview with Terry Stokes unleashed a torrent of thoughts on why white people act the way they do, and how he and other Black people have...
Three Ways that Help People Heal from Racial Trauma
Therapist-author Sheila Wise Rowe talks about what it feels like to suffer the trauma of racism. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – People of color who suffer racial trauma can find comfort and wholeness through three paths – lament, community and true reconciliation – said...
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...Healing the Trauma of Racism
For a limited time, you can watch 'Building a Trustworthy Healthcare System: Notes from History, Ethics and Contemporary Crises' with Harriet Washington. Learn how to get involved to help overcome structural racism. https://www.spectrumhealthlakeland.org/.../past-events
We recently invited the author of ‘Medical Apartheid’ Harriet Washington to help us understand Why African Americans, after 400 Years, Are Justly Suspicious of U.S. Medicine. #MiCGR
Read on: https://lynntodman.org/torture-and-abuse-in-the-name-of.../
How to build trust through community influencers. https://lynntodman.org/how-to-build-trust-in-a-pandemic/
% of registered voters who say it “really matters” who wins the presidential election
2000 50%
2004 67%
2008 63%
2012 63%
2016 74%
2020 83%
-Pew
