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By Tariro Mzezewa and Tracey Rychter, June 25, 2020, NYT. The road trip has long been considered part of the great American experience, but the feeling of freedom often associated with getting in a car and seeing the country hasn’t always been extended to African-American travelers, who often worry about discrimination and racism while traveling. After publishing a story on the concerns and anxieties many black travelers experience when driving , we asked readers to share their experiences.

By Greg B. Smith, July 6, 2020, The City. After a judge ruled in 2013 that the NYPD had violated the rights of thousands of Black and Hispanic young men with unlawful stop-and-frisks, the department began hiring consultants to help change its policing and patch up tattered community relationships. The NYPD brought in a Tampa firm to train cops on how to address implicit racial bias. A California lawyer group arrived to fix training on how to perform stop-and-frisks legally. A Seattle firm...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she will post the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Jane Stevens] Heim CM, Entringer S, Buss C. Translating basic research knowledge on the biological embedding of early-life stress into novel approaches for the developmental...

For the leaders of Sarasota Strong (or "SRQ Strong") Florida, anti-racism work isn’t about inviting people of color to tables long-occupied by white professionals fluent in academic jargon and theories of change. It’s about venturing, with humility and openness, into spaces where Black people worship, work and live.

I listened to this great conversation between Dan Harris and Resmaa Menakem last night. Here's more information about this conversation from the 10% Happier podcast notes:

There are online parenting classes in both English and Spanish offered through Echo Training. Here's more information about the online classes from @Louise Godbold who is the Executive Director of Echo Training.

Survivors’ Voices , The McPin Foundation , and the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network are conducting research to understand how to help children and young people who are experiencing, or at risk of, abuse at home but who are not known to social services or other authorities, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards. The research is being led by survivor-researchers with lived experience of violence and abuse and involves an anonymous online survey, open to people aged 16 and...

7/2/20, positiveexperience.org/blog Today’s post is based on an interview with Elliott Orrin Hinkle (they/them), an alumnus of the Wyoming Foster Care System. They are an advocate for child welfare, mental health, and the LGBTQ population. Nationally they work as a consultant to the National Capacity Building Center for States at ICF International and at JBS International working on NYTD. Since 2014 they have been a trainer of Youth Thrive and recently were certified to train on Youth Thrive...

By Nicole Ellis and Maya Lin Sugarman, The Lily, July 2, 2020 In the last month since George Floyd’s death, people across the United States have started to look more critically at how we deal with race and incorporate anti-racism into our everyday lives. But one of the biggest challenges we’re running into is white people getting it wrong. We’re diving into why that’s happening and how to do better. It can be exhausting for many black people in this moment to hear from their nonblack...

By April M. Short, Witness LA, June 21, 2020 Protests against systemic racism and police brutality in America continue to call for justice after the police murder of George Floyd on May 25. Floyd’s death catalyzed an uprising of voices that are pushing forward the national narratives around policing and public safety. There is a widespread, growing call to defund and dismantle America’s long-militarized police departments, restructure their use of force policies, and redistribute their...

By Nicholas Ibarra, Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 23, 2020 After fostering the development of predictive policing technology a decade ago, Santa Cruz on Tuesday became the first city in the U.S. to approve a ban on its use. Both predictive policing and facial recognition technologies are set to be barred from use by Santa Cruz police under a closely watched ordinance unanimously approved by the City Council, which will return to the council Aug. 11 for final adoption. San Francisco, Oakland and...

By Richard A. Oppel Jr., Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Will Wright, and Mitch Smith, The New York Times, July 5, 2020 Teresa and Marvin Bradley can’t say for sure how they got the coronavirus. Maybe Ms. Bradley, a Michigan nurse, brought it from her hospital. Maybe it came from a visiting relative. Maybe it was something else entirely. What is certain — according to new federal data that provides the most comprehensive look to date on nearly 1.5 million coronavirus patients in America —...