culture
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Yale Student Hospitalized With Ebola-Like Symptoms
A graduate student in Yale University’s public health program has been admitted to a New Haven, Conn., hospital with Ebola-like symptoms, according to the Hartford Courant. A letter released by school officials and sent to Yale community members stated, “There is no indication at this time that the student has contracted the Ebola virus.” The…
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Officer Involved in Shooting of Unarmed, Sleeping Milwaukee Man Is Fired
Earlier this year, Milwaukee resident Dontre Hamilton was sleeping on a park bench when police Officer Christopher Manney, who had received a call asking that he make sure the man was all right, approached Hamilton and began to pat him down. According to police officials, a scuffle ensued and Manney drew his weapon and shot…
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Watch: Student Charged With Assault and Teacher on Leave After Fight Caught on Tape
A Baltimore City teacher has been placed on administrative leave, and a female student has been charged with assault, after a classroom incident involving a cellphone turned violent and the bulk of it was caught on tape. According to WBAL, the fight began at Carver Vocational High School in West Baltimore on Friday after the…
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Nearby Gunfire Interrupts Anti-Violence Rally, 8-Year-Old’s Remarks
The precocious 8-year-old was standing before a gathering inside a community center in Newark, N.J., delivering his own passionate plea for an end to violence. During his remarks, gunfire ripped through the area nearby, killing a young man outside the rally. “Violence came as I was talking,” Nyeeam Hudson told CBS 2 about the Saturday-afternoon incident.…
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2nd Texas Nurse to Contract Ebola Was Cleared by CDC to Fly
As more and more details about Texas’ third Ebola victim, Amber Vinson, come to light, attention is turning to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which acknowledged clearing the nurse to fly even after she reported a high fever, CBS News reports. Vinson is the second nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to contract…
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Thomas Eric Duncan Didn’t Have to Die From Ebola, Nephew Says
While the Ebola narrative continues to unfold, the nephew of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with the disease on U.S. soil, has penned a narrative of his own. “He was a man of color with no health insurance and no means to pay for treatment, so within hours he was released,”…
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UK Experts: Hip-Hop Can Be Used to Treat Mental Illness
Once on the fringe, hip-hop culture is now popular culture and is being taught and studied at some of the most selective universities around the world. Researchers at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom believe that the genre can be used to help treat some mental illnesses. Becky Inkster, a neuroscientist in Cambridge University’s department…
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A Different World: Why My Predominantly White College Wasn’t Right for Me
Editor’s note: In honor of the movie Dear White People, a satirical drama about race and culture at a fictional Ivy League college, we decided to ask two black students to explain why they love or hate their experiences at a predominantly white institution of higher learning. Read part 1 here. Dear White People opens Friday. “The blacks, whether originally…
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Not-So-Great Expectations: Teachers Expect Less of Black and Brown Students
A recent study by the Center for American Progress released this month highlighted what some might call the “soft bigotry of low expectations” if there was a way to take a jug of Downy fabric softener and make old-fashioned implicit bias gentler. The study found that teachers can have a bit of a Pygmalion effect…