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...
A Somber Accounting
As president of the class of 1990, Jerry was in frequent contact with classmates and friends from his high school days. He was often notified of these friends’ deaths and sometimes asked to speak at their funerals. Here is the list Jerry Price assembled of 22...Healing the Trauma of Racism
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by @BarackObama https://link.medium.com/kSWNYb8SX6
Three ways that help people heal from racial trauma. https://lynntodman.org/three-ways-that-help-people-heal-from-racial-trauma/
How Racial Trauma can live inside a person for 55 years. https://lynntodman.org/how-racial-trauma-can-live-inside-you/
Milwaukee continues its work after declaring systematic racism a public health crisis. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/05/30/milwaukee-racism-public-health-crisis
COVID-19 rates reflect inequalities in Berrien County
50 percent of deaths have been black people http://heraldpalladium.mi.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=3ad2f622e
