Community Checkup

A mini “TechCheck”…
A frequent commenter on this site, JJ, recently wrote me asking if there was any data to show how much blacks agree with some of the frequently mentioned views of Reverend Wright. I thought it was a pretty interesting question given the back-and-forth in the press and blogosphere lately about how how [...]

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Strength is a defining characteristic of black people and culture. Strength (along with hope/faith) is what has gotten us through hell to where we are today and it’s what keeps us moving forward. But as Terrie Williams points out in her new book, Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting, there [...]

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Yet another racial gap…
A recent study in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) points out a gap in the prescription of pain killers during emergency room visits. The study looked at national data on the prescription of opioid pain meds (e. g. morphine & oxycodone) for whites, blacks, Asians, and Latinos [...]

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