EJS President Eva Paterson will be a panel member on a virtual town hall hosted by ABC7/KGO-TV on Thursday, April 30, at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The town hall will be aired live on ABC7, on abc7news.com, and on ABC7’s Facebook page. See more information below. Viewers are invited to submit questions for the townContinueContinue reading “Eva Paterson on ABC7 Town Hall on COVID-19 Impact on African Americans”
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This Week in White Supremacy #121: How the politics of racial resentment is killing white people
(Vox) Why do many working-class white Americans support politicians whose policies are literally killing them? This is the question sociologist and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl tries to answer in his new book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. The book is a serious look at how cultural attitudes associatedContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #121: How the politics of racial resentment is killing white people”
Releasing More People from Prison Will Make All of Us Safer, Not Less So
Eleven years after a federal court found that overcrowding in California’s prisons was unconstitutional, conditions have not improved much. Social distancing is impossible. By Yoana Tchoukleva and Louis Scott California’s prisons are overcrowded, unhygienic and inhumane. Public health experts have warned that an outbreak of COVID-19 in any one of them will become “a source of uncontrolledContinueContinue reading “Releasing More People from Prison Will Make All of Us Safer, Not Less So”