The virtue signaling via your tax dollars escalates. The state of Colorado plans to declare racism a “public health care crisis.” According to Channel 7 News, the head of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Jill Hunsaker Ryan, will make the declaration. They report, “In doing so, Hunsaker […]
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San Antonio City Council members could vote soon on a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis and calling for racial justice to be a fundamental part of all city policies and programs. Dozens of U.S. cities and counties, including Austin and Dallas County, have passed nonbinding declarations deeming racism […]
Design: Nathalie Cruz for Yahoo Life July is BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Mental Health Month, also referred to as Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. In an effort to bring awareness to struggles that people of color face regarding mental health in the U.S., Yahoo Life is republishing […]
Midsection of female doctor helping surgeon wearing surgical glove. Medical colleagues are preparing for surgery. They are standing in emergency room. More than 130,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, a novel strain of coronavirus, and cases continue to surge in communities across the country. But for frontline medical workers, particularly […]
When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools around the world to stop offering in-person classes this year, more than 1.5 billion kids wound up at home, struggling to learn—with their parents struggling alongside them. For the online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, which is best known for video tutorials for middle- and […]
When historians look back at 2020, they might see some important lessons about how problems become really big problems when left to fester. First, COVID-19 shut down the American economy and killed over 112,000 Americans — disproportionately African American — because we failed to establish the proper public health response early to […]