I can’t tell you how deeply I believe this moment in time is what it is because we are trying to build multiracial, multiethnic, multi-religious, multicultural society w/ the same systems, skills, and norms of homogeneous society. Here are some skills I think we need get good at:

FINALLY! Just in time for the winter COVID surge, the CDC now has a useful wastewater dashboard. It indicates that nationally COVID wastewater levels are HIGH and rising further. You can access the dashboard here: cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID1…

As its National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and Black women account for over half of new HIV diagnoses, it's as good a time as any to highlight that there is a **PrEP vaginal ring** available but it is *not available* in the US. We need more PrEP options for folks w/ vaginas.

✨📚I can’t believe it’s already publication day! I am so thankful to everyone who made this possible—my family, friends, literary agent, editor, assistants & especially the contributors! It takes a village. I hope you’ll check it out. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 W. W. Norton & Company wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

The MA Senate is voting tomorrow on whether to limit how long families can be in shelter to 9 months, when it takes families on avg 40 months for families to get into housing. Read my piece on why limiting families time in shelter is wrong bostonglobe.com/2024/03/20/opi…

As leaders of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within academic, medical, and corporate institutions strive to improve equity and health for all, they are facing attacks from all sides. Read the new Perspective by Dr. Aletha Maybank: nej.md/4crK2Iz

Why are Black patients more likely to die waiting for a #HeartTransplant? What happens AFTER a patient gets listed for a 💗? 👇🏾 our paper in JAMA (Corrected link 😊 Below) jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Respectfully, colleague - The disappointing thing about this take is you actually can’t have an informed opinion on this if you are choosing to be gender neutral and racially indifferent. Because that is impossible. Her existence as a black woman shapes both how she is seen by

In JAMA Psychiatry, Helena Hansen and I show that "Deaths of Despair" (from overdose, suicide, alcohol) among Black Americans overtook the rate for White Americans in 2022. This further debunks the narrative that these deaths uniquely harm White communities. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Firearms are now the #1 cause of US youth deaths (displacing car accidents). But WHO is dying? We show: Black youth firearm deaths have been rising in RURAL AREAS for >1 decade; Since 2018, Black rural youth have matched Black urban youth This is new nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

first words Sonya Massey said at her front door were “don’t hurt me” she was told “why would we hurt you, you called us” when have those words meant anything when your black and woman in this country when do those words protect you from not being murdered in your kitchen,

1. Sonya Massey - "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus." 2. George Floyd - "I can't breathe." 3. Eric Garner - "I can't breathe." 4. Michael Brown - "I don't have a gun. Stop shooting." 5. Philando Castile - "I wasn't reaching for it." 6. Breonna Taylor - "Why did you shoot me?" 7.

69. Anthony Hill - No audible last words; shot while naked and unarmed. 70. Saheed Vassell - No audible last words; shot while holding a metal pipe. 71. Willie McCoy - No audible last words; shot while sleeping in a car. 72. Robert White - No audible last words; shot during an

Finally! A paper analyzing the case description content from the Fatal Encounters database. Thanks Sirry and colleagues!! Saying more than her name: Characterizing fatal police violence against Black women & girls in the US, 2000 - 2019 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here are those last few moments of Sen. Raphael Warnock’s speech #DNC

GOOD NEWS: The US government has announced that it will again offer free at-home Covid tests starting in late September. You will be able to get 4 more free test kits sent through the mail.

The Mapping Police Violence organization just released a new data platform documenting over 1,000,000 cases of police use of force nationwide across 58% of the U.S. This is the largest public database of its kind, explore the data at policedata.org. Here’s what the data

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to reconsider its ruling to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the last two known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre apnews.com/article/tulsa-…

Don't wait – check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote. And then share this with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day. VoteSaveAmerica.com/Obama

No one should *own* hospitals. Healthcare is a public good. Everyone should pay for its structures and everyone should benefit from access to its services. Also, profit doesn’t have to govern US healthcare systems and physicians’ aren’t immune to profiteering.