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When wealthy New Yorkers decided to build Central Park, they eliminated an egalitarian community known as Seneca Village. [See more of this story at https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/10/the-city-needed-them-out/541773/]

One common response to the national anthem protests originated by Colin Kaepernick is to disparage them as polarizing. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe, summed up this particular critique in a tweet last weekend: Follow Joe Scarborough ✔ @JoeNBC This may be unpopular but it is a political reality: Every NFL player refusing to stand for the national anthem helps Trump politically. The idea here is that kneeling NFL players are committing an act of such blatant disrespect that they hand...

There’s a type of racism in the workplace many of us have personally witnessed, perpetrated or experienced: tokenism. Nowhere have I seen this play out more than in the nonprofit space. Tokenism is, simply, covert racism. Racism requires those in power to maintain their privilege by exercising social, economic and/or political muscle against people of color (POC). Tokenism achieves the same while giving those in power the appearance of being non-racist and even champions of diversity because...

Yesterday, a friend asked me if she could borrow my car to run a long-distance errand because my little car gets better mileage than her big one. I wanted to say no; switching cars on an already busy day felt like a hassle to me. But I didn’t say no. Instead, I hemmed and hawed and hesitated, hoping she’d get the hint. It can be really hard to say no. Despite my best attempts not to care what other people think of me , I still find myself wanting to be liked. I don’t want people to think I’m...

Alison is only 14 but she knows what she wants to be when she grows up: A surgeon. It’s not easy to study, however, when you’re so exhausted and hungry you can barely get through 9 th -grade biology. An immigrant from Colombia, Alison is one of more than 200,000 K-12 students in California considered homeless because they lack stable housing. And like most of those students, she lives with her family in a home shared with other families — in her case, two other families. “I go to school...

Even identical twins who are born with the same genome show variations in their health span during the aging process. In addition to our genetic information, many environmental and lifestyle-related factors can influence the aging rate of cells and tissues. One of the most accurate predictors of the rate of biological aging is the"epigenetic clock" formed by chemical tags (methyl groups) that are added to the DNA molecules. When the ticking of this clock is too fast, the risks of chronic...

In the summer of 2007, a woman was brought by ambulance to the emergency department of the Medical Center Haaglanden, a hospital that serves an inner city area of The Hague in the Netherlands. The woman was drunk and had a severe head injury. Her eight-year-old son was with her. Hester Diderich, an emergency nurse, and other hospital staff members looked after the boy while they attended to his mother. “We were very nice to him,” Diderich remembers. After treating the woman’s injuries, they...

Pierce County partners center their work on what The Building Community Resilience Collaborative calls the “pair of ACEs”: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Environments.

With your support, our first printing of Mind Matters sold out in a month (100 copies). We have sold 800 participant journals. They went all over the country from the East coast to the West coast. Both rural and urban communities. All the groups that we expected to use this program purchased them!! Foster kids, alternative high schools, middle schools, detention centers, violence prevention programs, health educators, family service agencies, group homes, etc. I spent two days in San Antonio...

Erica Woodland, in Truthout, on a necessary conversation.

Great site with some lovely books for children 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept' https://www.facebook.com/SomeSecretsShouldNeverBeKept/

It is not news that people abused as children are more exposed to clinical depression, anxiety, and a higher risk of death from suicide. But now, researchers have begun to reveal what happens in the brain following this kind of trauma. According to data provided by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, there was a 3.8 percent increase in reported child abuse cases in the country between 2011 and 2015. This amounts to 683,000 cases of child abuse...