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Data shows massive disparity in excess deaths among Black Americans

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Health outcome Disparities based on Race

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Health outcome Disparities based on Race

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A pair of new studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the toll of racial disparities in health for Black Americans is even starker than we knew. From 1999 to 2020, Black Americans experienced 1.63 million excess deaths compared to white Americans and COVID widened the gap even further. Amna Nawaz discussed the significance of this data with Dr. Lisa Cooper.

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Data shows massive disparity in excess deaths among Black Americans

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A pair of new studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the toll of racial disparities in health for Black Americans is even starker than we knew. From 1999 to 2020, Black Americans experienced 1.63 million excess deaths compared to white Americans and COVID widened the gap even further.

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Young playwrights use the theater to confront the trauma of gun violence | PBS NewsHour

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This weekend's mass shooting in Buffalo once again highlighted the devastating impact of gun violence in this country.

It is a problem all too familiar to many Americans, and specifically young people. In 2020, guns became the leading cause of death for children, surpassing fatalities from car accidents. Activists across the country are working to shed light on this issue through a series of plays written and performed by young adults, many of whom have had direct experience with gun violence.

Jeffrey Brown has the story for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

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Young playwrights use the theater to confront the trauma of gun violence

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In 2021, more than 1,500 children and teenagers in the United States were killed by gunfire. Activists across the country are working to shed light on that issue through a series of plays written and performed by young adults, many of whom have had direct experience with gun violence.

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How to gain power Paul Rucker

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Paul Rucker: The symbols of systemic racism -- and how to take away their power

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Multidisciplinary artist and TED Fellow Paul Rucker is unstitching the legacy of systemic racism in the United States. A collector of artifacts connected to the history of slavery -- from branding irons and shackles to postcards depicting lynchings -- Rucker couldn't find an undamaged Ku Klux Klan robe for his collection, so he began making his own.

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Talbot Boys removal lawsuit final in Maryland

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The "Talbot Boys" memorial stands outside the county courthouse. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday calls for the removal of a Confederate monument that is still standing on the grounds of the county courthouse in Easton, Md., despite years of opposition from community advocates.

The statue celebrating the " Talbot Boys " is the last Confederate monument on public land in Maryland. The figure of the man holding a Confederate flag is the first thing to greet visitors as they arrive at court in Talbot County, a small, mostly White jurisdiction on the Eastern Shore.

Maryland's office of the public defender, Talbot County's branch of the NAACP and the ACLU of Maryland are among the groups that have signed on to the lawsuit against Talbot County. It alleges the statue is unconstitutional and illegal under federal and state law.

"The final vestige of the traitorous Confederacy has got to go," Dana Vickers Shelley, executive director of the ACLU of Maryland, said at a news conference announcing the suit. "At long last, Maryland is finally moving away from symbols like this."

Talbot County Council President Chuck F. Callahan (R) did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.

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Shelley noted that the push to remove the statue, which she said stands upon ground where slave auctions were held, comes as Maryland has made strides on racial justice.

After multiple failed attempts, state lawmakers this year decided to get rid of the official state song, "Maryland, My Maryland," which glorifies the Confederacy and calls Abraham Lincoln a "tyrant."

The state also passed historic police accountability measures this year, including becoming the first state to repeal its powerful Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights. House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County), the first Black person to hold that position, played a key role in passing the policing bills and also led efforts last year to remove a pro-Confederate plaque from a wall inside the Maryland State House.

After white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville in 2017 in favor of keeping Confederate monuments, leading to the death of Heather Heyer, four Confederate statues in Baltimore were hauled away. So was a statue on the Maryland State House grounds of Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney - a slavery defender whose infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision said Black people could not be U.S. citizens.

The lawsuit to remove the "Talbot Boys" statue, filed in federal district court in Baltimore, says it should "shock the conscience" that any government in America would "would continue to maintain the symbolism of white supremacy and promote a legacy of racial subjugation."

The statue was erected in 1916 in memory of dozens of people who fought for the Confederacy from Talbot, which today has 37,000 residents and is 83 percent White. Maryland was a slaveholding border state that remained in the Union during the war, though many of its citizens were Confederate sympathizers.

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Last year, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Talbot County Council member Corey W. Pack (R), the council's only Black member, introduced a resolution to remove the statue.

Kisha Petticolas, who has worked in the Easton office of the Maryland public defender for a decade and is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the statue has a "violent, hateful legacy" that continues to have an impact today.

"How can we keep this Confederate monument erected without promoting the same legacy of white supremacy? It cannot be done," she said in a statement. "How can any Black Marylanders expect justice at a courthouse that holds up a racist symbol on a pedestal for all to see?"

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Updated March 3, 2021

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Lawsuit seeks to remove last Confederate statue on public land in Maryland

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A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday calls for the removal of a Confederate monument that is still standing on the grounds of the county courthouse in Easton, Md., despite years of opposition from community advocates. The statue celebrating the " Talbot Boys " is the last Confederate monument on public land in Maryland.

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On being AntiRacist

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Ibram X. Kendi: The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist

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There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs.

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Race explored

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Pooping Peeing Doll Dirty Diapers & Surprise Toys Purse

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High school student Kiri Davis explores the self-image of black children in the US by repeating the historic "doll test" of Dr. Kenneth Clark that led to school desegregation. The experiment shows how many black children are trapped by low self-esteem. Community Tampa Bay works to eliminate prejudice, stereotypes and racism.

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When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit...

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When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit...

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-Donald Trump

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Brainy Quotes

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"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." - John F. Kennedy

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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

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-Lamar Alexander

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Online & in class work

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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation. 

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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation. 

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-Cesar Chavez

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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

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-Hillary Clinton

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Race, SES, Abilities

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Please evaluate this course

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Between serious topics & having a positive experience