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Many Black people say police killings aren’t ‘going to be fixed overnight’
Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences said, “The Black Lives Matter movement and the response to the killing of Black folks and the whole agenda of the Black Lives Matter movement is the largest one that I can ever recall or envision,” and attributed the movement’s size and success in part to the pandemic.
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Pennsylvania voting access suit could have national repercussions
Research by Marc Meredith of the School of Arts & Sciences found that voters in majority Black and Latino jurisdictions experience longer wait times at the polls than those in majority-white districts.
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COVID-19 has more Americans thinking about science. Could this be a Sputnik moment?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about how the evolution in the U.S. in recent years of perceptions of climate change, with almost 70% of Americans now agreeing that human activity is a contributing factor. “The evidence has become clearer. The communication has become more effective. And people have experienced events in their lives that they attribute to climate change,” she said. “That suggests this isn’t a hopeless task.”
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Rattled by protests, Iraqi Kurdish leaders punish journalists
Mohammed Salih of the Annenberg School for Communication said Kurdistan’s political system has both democratic and authoritarian tendencies. “The pendulum typically swings more toward the authoritarian side of the spectrum during moments of ‘crisis’—that is, when the ruling class feels direct challenges to their power,” he said.
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How are teens and young adults coping?
Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education and Frances Jensen of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about how young people view the threat of COVID-19 and the effects of police violence on their mental health.
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One man’s battle shows why COVID-19 and obesity are a toxic mix
Lewis Kaplan of the Perelman School of Medicine said high levels of body fat can negatively impact one’s chances of surviving COVID-19. “It changes how you evaluate all kinds of considerations, from vascular issues to medications,” he said.
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Is your boss spying on you while you work remotely?
Julia Ticona of the Annenberg School for Communication said the pandemic has contributed to an escalation of worker surveillance.
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How to put up monuments that truly recon with American History
Paul Farber of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Center for Public Art and Space visiting scholar Sue Mobley spoke about President Trump’s proposed National Garden of American Heroes and proposed a new democratic process for creating monuments. “History doesn’t fit well in statues,” said Mobley. “Movements don’t fit well in summaries; they’re ongoing.”
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Here’s why it’s a big deal to capitalize the word ‘Black’
Nicole Holliday of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the importance of acknowledging the cultural ramifications of whiteness. “We call some classes ‘Black History’ but the ones that focus on ‘white history’ are just called ‘history,’” she said. “That kind of erasure is an issue, because it continues to situate whiteness as ‘normal’ and everything else as ‘other.’”
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Dr. David Fajgenbaum and Ajay Raju—Overheard part II
David Fajgenbaum of the Perelman School of Medicine was interviewed about surviving Castleman Disease.