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Dennis OConnor

The neuroscience of placebo effects: connecting context, learning and health - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 23 Oct 19
     
    "Abstract Placebo effects are beneficial effects that are attributable to the brain-mind responses to the context in which a treatment is delivered rather than to the specific actions of the drug. They are mediated by diverse processes - including learning, expectations and social cognition - and can influence various clinical and physiological outcomes related to health. Emerging neuroscience evidence implicates multiple brain systems and neurochemical mediators, including opioids and dopamine. We present an empirical review of the brain systems that are involved in placebo effects, focusing on placebo analgesia, and a conceptual framework linking these findings to the mind-brain processes that mediate them. This framework suggests that the neuropsychological processes that mediate placebo effects may be crucial for a wide array of therapeutic approaches, including many drugs."
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AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium | AMIA - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 16 Sep 20
     
    "AMIA 2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM The Annual Symposium builds on more than 40 years of sharing pioneering research and insights for leveraging information to improve human health. Topics of interest span the spectrum from deciphering the underpinning phenomena of disease, to managing information and communications for improving patient care, to tracking the health of populations. The AMIA 2020 Annual Symposium showcases the latest innovations from the community of biomedical informatics researchers and practitioners. The AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium brings together informatics professionals from diverse backgrounds committed to transforming health through informatics. From the leading experts in the field, to the students eager to get started, the AMIA 2020 Virtual Annual Symposium provides an opportunity to learn and to grow professionally, to network, and to flesh out ideas with colleagues and start new collaborations."
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Partnering Guide - CIRCLE for the Multiple Chronic Conditions Stories and Dialogues - 0 views

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    "Multiple Chronic Conditions Community: People who live with multiple complex, chronic, persistent, painful and often mystifying health conditions are not only resilient but wise due to the expertise gained from managing MCCs and navigating healthcare systems. Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) can benefit from their expertise. People who help patients manage their health whether as professional care providers, insurance providers, policy makers, researchers, family or friends who care each day about these patients are also considered members of the MCC community. Building a diverse multi-stakeholder team to design CER studies to improve health outcomes for MCC patients requires a thoughtful and person centered approach to building a research community. "
Dennis OConnor

Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here's How. - POLITICO - 0 views

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  • Instead of asking, “Is there a reason to do this online?” we’ll be asking, “Is there any good reason to do this in person?”
  • saluting our doctors and nurses, genuflecting and saying, “Thank you for your service,”
  • give them guaranteed health benefits and corporate discounts
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  • it will force us to reconsider who we are and what we value, and, in the long run, it could help us rediscover the better version of ourselves.
  • has the potential to break America out of the 50-plus year pattern of escalating political and cultural polarization
  • the “common enemy” scenario, in which people begin to look past their differences when faced with a shared external threat
  • second reason is the “political shock wave” scenario
  • enduring relational patterns often become more susceptible to change after some type of major shock destabilizes them
  • now is the time to begin to promote more constructive patterns in our cultural and political discourse. The time for change is clearly ripening.
  • The COVID-19 crisis
  • has already forced people back to accepting that expertise matters.
  • move them back toward the idea that government is a matter for serious people.
  • the end of our romance with market society and hyper-individualism.
  • We could turn toward authoritarianism
  • reorient our politics and make substantial new investments in public goods—for health, especially—and public services.
  • to allowing partial homeschooling or online learning for K-12 kids has been swept away by necessity.
  • the social order it helps support—will collapse if the government doesn’t guarantee income for the millions of workers who will lose their jobs in a major recession or depression
  • de-militarization of American patriotism and love of community will be one of the benefits to come out of this whole awful mess.
  • But how do an Easter people observe their holiest day if they cannot rejoice together on Easter morning?
  • How do Jews celebrate their deliverance from bondage when Passover Seders must take place on Zoom
  • Can Muslim families celebrate Ramadan if they cannot visit local mosques for Tarawih prayers
  • All faiths have dealt with the challenge of keeping faith alive under the adverse conditions of war or diaspora or persecution—but never all faiths at the same time.
  • Contemplative practices may gain popularity
  • One group of Americans has lived through a transformational epidemic in recent memory: gay men. Of course, HIV/AIDS
  • Plagues drive change.
  • awakened us to the need for the protection of marriage
  • People are finding new ways to connect and support each other in adversity
  • demand major changes in the health-care system
  • COVID-19 will sweep away many of the artificial barriers to moving more of our lives online
  • uptake on genuinely useful online tools has been slowed by powerful legacy players,
  • collaboration with overcautious bureaucrats
  • Medicare allowing billing for telemedicine was a long-overdue change
  • s was revisiting HIPAA to permit more medical providers to use the same tools the rest of us use every day to communicate, such as Skype, Facetime and email.
  • The resistance
  • we will be better able to see how our fates are linked.
  • near-impossible to put that genie back in the bottle in the fall
  • college
  • forcing massive changes in a sector that has been ripe for innovation for a long time.
  • Once companies sort out their remote work dance steps, it will be harder—and more expensive—to deny employees those options.
  • Yo-Yo Ma
  • Perhaps we can use our time with our devices to rethink the kinds of community we can create through them
  • This is a different life on the screen from disappearing into a video game or polishing one’s avatar.
  • breaking open a medium with human generosity and empathy
  • Not only alone together, but together alone.
  • The rise of telemedicine
  • Out of necessity, remote office visits could skyrocket in popularity as traditional-care settings are overwhelmed by the pandemic
  • they’ve been forced to make impossible choices among their families, their health and financial ruin.
  • This crisis should unleash widespread political support for Universal Family Care
  • single public federal fund that we all contribute to, that we all benefit from, that helps us take care of our families while we work, from child care and elder care to support for people with disabilities and paid family leave.
  • potlight on unmet needs of the growing older population
  • The reality of fragile supply chains for active pharmaceutical ingredients coupled with public outrage over patent abuses that limit the availability of new treatments has led to an emerging, bipartisan consensus that the public sector must take far more active and direct responsibility for the development and manufacture of medicines.
  • resilient government approach will replace our failed, 40-year experiment with market-based incentives
  • Science reigns again.
  • Truth and its most popular emissary, science, have been declining in credibility for more than a generation
  • Quickly, however, Americans are being reacquainted with scientific concepts like germ theory and exponential growth
  • Unlike with tobacco use or climate change, science doubters will be able to see the impacts of the coronavirus immediately
  • for the next 35 years, I think we can expect that public respect for expertise in public health and epidemics to be at least partially restored
  • Congress can finally go virtual.
  • We need Congress to continue working through this crisis, but given advice to limit gatherings to 10 people or fewer, meeting on the floor of the House of Representatives is not an especially wise option right now
  • nstead, this is a great time for congresspeople to return to their districts and start the process of virtual legislating—permanently
  • Lawmakers will be closer to the voters they represent
  • sensitive to local perspectives and issues
  • A virtual Congress is harder to lobby
  • Party conformity also might loosen with representatives remembering local loyalties over party ties.
  • Big government makes a comeback.
  • Not only will America need a massive dose of big government
  • we will need big, and wise, government more than ever in its aftermath.
  • The widely accepted idea that government is inherently bad won’t persist after coronavirus.
  • functioning government is crucial for a healthy society
  • most people are desperately hoping
  • a rebirth of the patriotic honor of working for the government.
  • the coronavirus crisis might sow the seeds of a new civic federalism, in which states and localities become centers of justice, solidarity and far-sighted democratic problem-solving.
  • we will see that some communities handled the crisis much better than others.
  • success came in states where government, civic and private-sector leaders joined their strengths together in a spirit of self-sacrifice for the common good.
  • The coronavirus is this century’s most urgent challenge to humanity.
  • a new sense of solidarity, citizens of states
  • The rules we’ve lived by won’t all apply
  • pandemic has revealed a simple truth:
  • many policies that our elected officials have long told us were impossible and impractical were eminently possible and practical all along.
  • student loans and medical debt
  • evictions were avoidable; the homeless could’ve been housed
  • Trump has already put a freeze on interest for federal student loans
  • Governor Andrew Cuomo has paused all medical and student debt owed to New York State
  • Democrats and Republicans are discussing suspending collection on—or outright canceling—student loans as part of a larger economic stimulus package
  • It’s clear that in a crisis, the rules don’t apply
  • an unprecedented opportunity to not just hit the pause button and temporarily ease the pain, but to permanently change the rules so that untold millions of people aren’t so vulnerable to begin with.
  • Revived trust in institutions.
  • oronavirus pandemic, one hopes, will jolt Americans into a realization that the institutions and values Donald Trump has spent his presidency assailing are essential to the functioning of a democracy—and to its ability to grapple effectively with a national crisis.
  • government institutions
  • need to be staffed with experts (not political loyalists),
  • decisions need to be made through a reasoned policy process and predicated on evidence-based science and historical and geopolitical knowledge
  • we need to return to multilateral diplomacy,
  • to the understanding that co-operation with allies—and adversaries, too—is especially necessary when it comes to dealing with global problems like climate change and viral pandemics.
  • t public trust is crucial to governance
  • 1918 flu pandemic
  • the main lesson from that catastrophe is that “those in authority must retain the public’s trust” and “the way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one.”
  • Expect a political uprising.
  • Occupy Wall Street 2.0, but this time much more massive and angrier.
  • Electronic voting goes mainstream.
  • how to allow for safe voting in the midst of a pandemic, the adoption of more advanced technology
  • To be clear, proven technologies now exist that offer mobile, at-home voting while still generating paper ballots.
  • This system is not an idea; it is a reality that has been used in more than 1,000 elections for nearly a decade by our overseas military and disabled voters.
  • hould be the new normal.
  • Election Day will become Election Month.
  • The change will come through expanded early voting and no-excuse mail-in balloting, effectively turning Election Day into Election Month
  • Once citizens experience the convenience of early voting and/or voting by mail, they won’t want to give it up.
  • . Some states, such as Washington, Oregon and Utah, already let everyone vote at home.
  • Voters already receive registration cards and elections guides by mail. Why not ballots?
  • First, every eligible voter should be mailed a ballot and a self-sealing return envelope with prepaid postage.
  • Elections administrators should receive extra resources to recruit younger poll workers, to ensure their and in-person voters’ health and safety, and to expand capacity to quickly and accurately process what will likely be an unprecedented volume of mail-in votes.
  • In the best-case scenario, the trauma of the pandemic will force society to accept restraints on mass consumer culture as a reasonable price to pay to defend ourselves against future contagions and climate disasters alike.
  • In the years ahead, however, expect to see more support from Democrats, Republicans, academics and diplomats for the notion that government has a much bigger role to play in creating adequate redundancy in supply chains—resilient even to trade shocks from allies. This will be a substantial reorientation from even the very recent past.
  • pressure on corporations to weigh the efficiency and costs/benefits of a globalized supply chain system against the robustness of a domestic-based supply chain.
  • other gap that has grown is between the top fifth and all the rest—and that gap will be exacerbated by this crisis.
  • In this crisis, most will earn steady incomes while having necessities delivered to their front doors.
  • other 80 percent of Americans lack that financial cushion.
  • will struggle
  • A hunger for diversion.
  • After the disastrous 1918-19 Spanish flu and the end of World War I, many Americans sought carefree entertainment, which the introduction of cars and the radio facilitated.
  • The economy quickly rebounded and flourished for about 10 years, until irrational investment tilted the United States and the world into the Great Depression.
  • human beings will respond with the same sense of relief and a search for community, relief from stress and pleasure.
  • Less communal dining—but maybe more cooking
  • many people will learn or relearn how to cook over the next weeks.
  • ikely there will be many fewer sit-down restaurants in Europe and the United States. We will be less communal at least for a while.
  • A revival of parks.
  • Urban parks—in which most major cities have made significant investments over the past decade—are big enough to accommodate both crowds and social distancing.
  • Society might come out of the pandemic valuing these big spaces even more,
  • A change in our understanding of ‘change.’
  • Americans have said goodbye to a society of frivolity and ceaseless activity in a flash
  • Our collective notions of the possible have changed already
  • The tyranny of habit no more.
  • Maybe, as in Camus’ time, it will take the dual specters of autocracy and disease to get us to listen to our common sense, our imaginations, our eccentricities—and not our programming.
  • and environmentally and physiologically devastating behaviors (including our favorites: driving cars, eating meat, burning electricity)
  • echarged commitment to a closer-to-the-bone worldview that recognizes we have a short time on earth
Dennis OConnor

Stop the privatization of health data : Nature News Comment - 0 views

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    "We believe that closed-data and closed-algorithm business models in health - at scale - will hamper scientific progress by blocking the discovery of diverse ways to examine and interpret health data. Longer term, they could increase rather than reduce inequalities and injustices. It is not hard to picture a future in which companies are able to trade people's disease profiles, unbeknown to the patients. Or one in which health decisions are abstruse and difficult to challenge, and advances in understanding are used to aggressively market health-related services to people - regardless of whether those services actually benefit their health."
Dennis OConnor

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Medicine - 1 views

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covid research origins-covid-19

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  • Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data
  • Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
  • The receptor-binding domain (RBD) in the spike protein is the most variable part of the coronavirus genome1,2. Six RBD amino acids have been shown to be critical for binding to ACE2 receptors and for determining the host range of SARS-CoV-like viruses7.
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  • Theories of SARS-CoV-2 originsIt is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus.
  • the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone
  • we propose two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2: (i) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer; and (ii) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer.
  • COVID-19 were linked to the Huanan market in Wuhan
  • it is likely that bats serve as reservoir hosts for its progenitor
  • Malayan pangolins (Manis javanica) illegally imported into Guangdong province contain coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-221
  • Although no animal coronavirus has been identified that is sufficiently similar to have served as the direct progenitor of SARS-CoV-2, the diversity of coronaviruses in bats and other species is massively undersampled
  • Detailed understanding of how an animal virus jumped species boundaries to infect humans so productively will help in the prevention of future zoonotic events.
  • It is possible that a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 jumped into humans, acquiring the genomic features described above through adaptation during undetected human-to-human transmission.
  • All SARS-CoV-2 genomes sequenced so
  • are thus derived from a common ancestor that had them too
  • Estimates of the timing of the most recent common ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 made with current sequence data point to emergence of the virus in late November 2019 to early December 201923,
  • compatible with the earliest retrospectively confirmed cases
  • Basic research involving passage of bat SARS-CoV-like coronaviruses in cell culture and/or animal models has been ongoing for many years in biosafety level 2 laboratories across the world27, and there are documented instances of laboratory escapes of SARS-CoV28. We must therefore examine the possibility of an inadvertent laboratory release of SARS-CoV-2.
  • The finding of SARS-CoV-like coronaviruses from pangolins with nearly identical RBDs, however, provides a much stronger and more parsimonious explanation of how SARS-CoV-2 acquired these via recombination or mutation1
  • it is reasonable to wonder why the origins of the pandemic matter
  • For a precursor virus to acquire both the polybasic cleavage site and mutations in the spike protein suitable for binding to human ACE2, an animal host would probably have to have a high population density (to allow natural selection to proceed efficiently) and an ACE2-encoding gene that is similar to the human ortholog
  • More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another.
Dennis OConnor

Stakeholders Identify Actions for Providers, Patients & Research Community to Advance P... - 0 views

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  • Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), AcademyHealth convened meeting participants whose comments grouped into six major areas of discussion and related actionable strategies. Ideas outlined in the full meeting report include the need to:  Strengthen training opportunities for providers, patients, and caregivers Improve the diversity of the health care workforce Engage community members as partners in patient care Keep patients at the center of innovations in service delivery Improve the transparency of care and costs Invest in implementation research
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A Partial Map of Black-led Black Liberation Organizing - 0 views

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    Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "This is a part of Resource Generation's It Starts Today! campaign, moving $1,000,000 to Black-Led, Black Liberation Organizing between the day Michael Brown was killed and what would have been his 19th birthday - May 20th, 2015. We aim to support organizing that confronts and dismantles anti-Black violence, whether committed by private citizens or by law enforcement, throughout the US. Resource Generation is a national membership organization organizing young people with wealth toward the equitable distribution of land, wealth and power. Learn more about Resource Generation and learn how to become a member by visiting www.resourcegeneration.org."
Dennis OConnor

Intersectionality, explained: meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term - Vox - 1 views

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  • The current debate over intersectionality is really three debates: one based on what academics like Crenshaw actually mean by the term, one based on how activists seeking to eliminate disparities between groups have interpreted the term, and a third on how some conservatives are responding to its use by those activists.
  • the American legal and socioeconomic order was largely built on racism.
  • Crenshaw argued that the court’s narrow view of discrimination was a prime example of the “conceptual limitations of ... single-issue analyses” regarding how the law considers both racism and sexism.
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  • Judge Harris Wangelin ruled against the plaintiffs, writing in part that “black women” could not be considered a separate, protected class within the law, or else it would risk opening a “Pandora’s box” of minorities who would demand to be heard in the la
  • Crenshaw’s theory went mainstream, arriving in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 and gaining widespread attention during the 2017 Women’s March,
  • “What was puzzling is that usually with ideas that people take seriously, they actually try to master them, or at least try to read the sources that they are citing for the proposition. Often, that doesn’t happen with intersectionality
  • Beginning in 2015 and escalating ever since, the conservative response to intersectionality has ranged from mild amusement to outright horror.
  • When you talk to conservatives about the term itself, however, they’re more measured. They say the concept of intersectionality — the idea that people experience discrimination differently depending on their overlapping identities — isn’t the problem.
  • the idea is more or less indisputable.
  • What many conservatives object to is not the term but its application on college campuses and beyond.
  • “Where the fight begins,” French said, “is when intersectionality moves from descriptive to prescriptive.”
  • “There have always been people, from the very beginning of the civil rights movement, who had denounced the creation of equality rights on the grounds that it takes something away from them.”
  • To Crenshaw, the most common critiques of intersectionality — that the theory represents a “new caste system” — are actually affirmations of the theory’s fundamental truth: that individuals have individual identities that intersect in ways that impact how they are viewed, understood, and treated.
  • But Crenshaw said that contrary to her critics’ objections, intersectionality isn’t “an effort to create the world in an inverted image of what it is now.” Rather, she said, the point of intersectionality is to make room “for more advocacy and remedial practices” to create a more egalitarian system.
  • She wants to get rid of those existing power dynamics altogether — changing the very structures that undergird our politics, law, and culture in order to level the playing field.
  • efforts to eliminate gender disparities would require examining how women of color experience gender bias differently from white women (and how nonwhite men do too, compared to white men).
  • Once we acknowledge the role of race and racism, what do we do about it? And who should be responsible for addressing racism, anyway?
  • Dennis OConnor on 25 Sep 20
     
    "The current debate over intersectionality is really three debates: one based on what academics like Crenshaw actually mean by the term, one based on how activists seeking to eliminate disparities between groups have interpreted the term, and a third on how some conservatives are responding to its use by those activists."
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Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidisc... - 0 views

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    Kimberle Crenshaw
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Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality | TED Talk - 0 views

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    "Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice."
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It is undeniable: Racism is a public health crisis - Healthcare Anchor Network - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 27 Sep 20
     
    "39 health systems in 45 states and Washington, DC have committed to addressing racism and the public health disparities caused by racism."
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Coronavirus kills far more Hispanic and Black children than White youths, CDC study fin... - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 15 Sep 20
     
    "The coronavirus is killing Hispanic, Black and American Indian children at much higher numbers than their White peers, according to federal statistics released Tuesday."
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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible KnapsackPeggy McIntosh - 0 views

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BLACK-LED ORGANIZATIONS - SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE - 0 views

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    Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "SURJ ASKS EVERY DONOR TO MAKE A MATCHING GIFT TO A BLACK-LED RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION You may know a local organization you want to support, which we fully support.  This list was compiled by leadership from the Movement for Black Lives.  We encourage you to give to one or more of the organizations below:"
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5 Tips For Being An Ally - YouTube - 0 views

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    Entertaining video. Terrific list of resources in the comments area.
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www.WhiteAccomplices.org - 1 views

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  • “If you have come here to help me, you’re wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
  • Dennis OConnor on 21 Sep 20
     
    Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "The ideas captured on this website, very much a work in progress, have been developed to support White people to act for racial justice. It draws from ideas and resources developed mostly by Black, Brown and People of Color, and has been edited by Black, Brown, and People of Color.  I recognize that categorizing actions under the labels of Actor, Ally, and Accomplice is an oversimplification, but hopefully this chart challenges all of us White folks to go outside of our comfort zones, take some bigger risks, and make some more significant sacrifices because this is what we've been asked to do by those most impacted by racism, colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, xenophobia, and hyper-capitalism. I believe that for real change to occur, we must confront and challenge all people, policies, systems, etc., that maintain privileges and power for White people."
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On Teaching: Learning From Black Educators - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • “You need a sincere love for children,” Grenell liked to remind Moore. “Never give up on a child.”
  • firm and demanding, but also warm and encouraging.
  • She was named Mississippi Teacher of the Year in 2001 and won the prestigious Milken Award.
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  • Students will go to great lengths to hide from me what they don’t know.
  • I do that very intentionally at the beginning of the semester to signal: “I see you as a human being. I’m paying attention to what you say to me. You are a unique individual with skills and ideas that matter.”
  • That’s important, because a lot of students have told me that no one’s ever actually read what they wrote. What they mean by that is that their writing has been graded, but it’s never been read.
  • Then, at the end of the semester, I give them the introduction letter back. And the final exam is an essay where they have to reflect on their portfolio: all of the written pieces they produced in the course of the semester.
  • they’re not used to measuring it in terms of actual skills and knowledge. They're always stunned at how far they’ve come.
  • The students have been so used to having their grammar criticized that they over-censor themselves when they’re writing.
  • The message was always, “When you go to college.” It was always, “You can do it.
  • “You get educated for the benefit of the community and the race.”
  • Today we have wasted a generation, telling young people that the primary reason to pursue education is to get into a well-paying career. In rural or economically depressed areas like Delta, looking at education chiefly as a path to social mobility—rather than a path to full citizenship, one’s sense of agency and freedom—can actually depress achievement and increase hopelessness. B
  • By attaching the dreams and aspirations of African American students to a higher good, their expectations are infused with a meaningful purpose.
  • For a lot of the kids now, school is just drudgery from beginning to end—particularly schools that serve poor Black students. There’s no music curriculum, no arts curriculum, no vocational classes.
  • They congratulated me, because I was going to Washington, D.C., to receive the award. These women had taken up money among themselves, put it in a handkerchief, tied it, and handed it to me, as a way to celebrate that I was going to see the president—and represent Black people in a society that questions Black intelligence. I cried. They cried. It was the most touching thing.
  • I am a reflection of the accumulated wisdom these teachers passed on to me. All of these great teachers who had preceded me, who taught in segregated schools under horrible conditions, with no equal pay.
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Homepage - Alliance Healthcare Foundation - 0 views

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    "We are working alongside our partners to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 through immediate relief, capacity building, and longer-term efforts to support resiliency and recovery, especially among marginalized communities most disproportionately impacted."
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