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A fast year: Lessons from the Indian Health System

A year goes by fast. Way too fast. Thirteen months ago I plunged into my “year-long” exploration of the Indian health system. It’s been fascinating because there has so much activity: Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and included with that bill the permanent authorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. [...]

This essay first appeared in the Mississippi Chicken DVD insert.  Reprinted with permission of the author and filmmaker. By Steve Striffler, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, University of New Orleans Mississippi Chicken is a true gem.  By letting us into the lives of immigrant poultry workers in Mississippi, this documentary captures much of what defines [...]

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From Special Guest Race-Talk Editor, Angela Stuesse This week the film Mississippi Chicken makes its Ohio premier: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else. In the 1990s, poultry companies in Mississippi and [...]

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“Black America stands at the precipice.  African American unemployment is at its highest in 25 years. Thirty-five percent of our children live in poor families. Inadequate healthcare, rampant incarceration, home foreclosures, and a general sense of helplessness overwhelm many of our fellows,” said Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. in his recent The Huffington Post [...]

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Out of the blue, I was invited to be an official blogger at CPAC 2010. I quickly seized the opportunity to be a witness to the rebirth of a movement that was declared dead a year ago. What a difference a year makes. This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference attracted 10,000 attendees, who could scarcely [...]

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Hi. This is Kathleen Wells.  I’m the political correspondent for Race-Talk.  Last week, I had an opportunity to talk with Dr. Cornel West.  He is the professor of Religion and African American studies at Princeton University.  Hope you enjoy listening to the conversation. Listen Now Kathleen Wells: Dr. West, I’d like to thank you for [...]

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Last week, I had a conversation with the self-professed “bluesman in the life of the mind” and “jazzman in the world of ideas,” Dr. Cornel West.  He talked with me about President Barack Obama’s first year in the White House and spoke with me about the historical significance and the modern-day application of the black [...]

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The Root reports that President Obama recently met with leaders of major black civil rights organizations to discuss the deep unemployment crisis in the African-American community, where unemployment is around 17% and underemployment can safely be assumed to be much higher. (As a sidenote, other than Dorothy Height, were there no other Black women leaders [...]

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Paul Levy’s Running A Hospital “is a blog started by a CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues.” The postings started as a lark. But when the president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center writes openly that sends a message that filters down throughout [...]

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My friend, the Miami businessman, Dave Williams, sees things differently than other people. He says this is because he is a space alien. “Muhammad Ali would have been proud of our President last night,” Dave said. I fastened my seat belt for a trip into outer space. “Obama did the rope-a-dope all year. He let [...]

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