Feature Channels: Race and Ethnicity

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Pennsylvania Hospital will team up with the American Cancer Society, the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia and Univision 65 to host an annual breast cancer screening event on Friday, October 28, by providing free mammograms to uninsured and underinsured women in the Philadelphia community.

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Curator Kelli Morgan started the new Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice certificate program at Tufts, which enrolled its first class this September. The online program is aimed at providing museum professionals with “a comparative understanding of museum development, art history, and curatorial practice, and the ways that each traditionally functions in service of larger discriminatory systems,” she says.

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Cystic fibrosis is missed more often in newborn screenings for non-white than white babies, creating higher risk for irreversible lung damage and other serious outcomes in Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native newborns, a new study finds.

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ASU business professor says cyber adversaries will look to midterm elections to stir the pot with voters, with most of the hyperbolic chatter coming from malicious bots spreading racism and hate on social media and in the comments section on news sites.

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Richard W. Garnett is the University of Notre Dame’s Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society and a concurrent professor of political science. Garnett discusses the future of the Supreme Court.

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The New Muses Project is a platform that provides recommendations of composers based on a person’s current preferences.

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About one in 10 seniors who live in cities reported that they use public transportation, and 20 percent of older transit users said they relied on trains and buses to get to their doctor appointments.

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New research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Black, Latinx communities could help shape more persuasive messages to boost uptake.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine has appointed national diversity innovator and emergency medicine physician Lynne M. Holden, M.D., senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion (D&I). Dr. Holden, a member of Einstein’s faculty since 1996, is an accomplished leader both within her medical discipline and in her efforts to help diversify the medical workforce.

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The American Educational Research Association has released the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, edited by Conra D. Gist and Travis J. Bristol.

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Black women have a 53% increased risk of dying in the hospital during childbirth, no matter their income level, type of insurance or other social determinants of health, suggesting systemic racism seriously impacts maternal health, according to an 11-year analysis of more than 9 million deliveries in U.S. hospitals being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022 annual meeting.

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The latest articles that have been added to the Environmental Health channel.

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The five-year project will culminate in a national survey

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A new three-year grant for more than $200,000 from the South Korean government will help spotlight the Korean language and its impact both in the region and larger world.