UMMC is shutting down the TEAM Clinic on June 30 after lawmakers criticized it for providing gender-affirming care to its patients in a recent Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review report.
In a social media post on March 18, 2023, former President Donald Trump announced that he would be arrested on March 21 on charges stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation. Scholar Shelley Inglis, who spent more than 15 years with the United Nations and advised governments and democracy advocates on how to strengthen the rule of law, human rights and democratic governance, answers a few questions about Trump’s post.
Rashad Shabazz explores the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.
The recent deaths of Robert Loggins of Grenada, Miss., Damien Cameron of Braxton, Miss., and 3-month-old La’Mello Parker in Biloxi, Miss., continue to negatively affect each respective community. Their deaths involve accusations of police officers using excessive force, which further burdens their families today.
At the first Gay Liberation March in New York City in June 1970, one of the organizers stated that “we’ll never have the freedom and civil rights we deserve as human beings unless we stop hiding in closets and in the shelter of anonymity.”
When people are locked in the grips of poverty and racism, when their voices are drowned out and ignored, and when their hopes are dashed, they turn to the only forms of protest they have at their disposal. As we have seen in the past weeks, Black communities have predictably, virulently and understandably exploded.
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