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At a time when coalition building is more crucial than ever, our Associate Director Patronella Nqaba sat down with 2019 Atlantic Fellow Wilneida Negron, Ph.D., to talk about how Black and Latinx communities can work together to build a more equitable future.

Along with more than six million people, they suffer from Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that progressively disrupts specific brain networks and causes problems with movement—such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking—as well as varied cognitive symptoms, such as attention and memory challenges.

Dealing with policy-makers goes hand in glove with most campaigns for social justice, writes Christopher Choong Weng Wai, but this path is littered with moral hazards. What do we leave out of our advocacy strategies when we focus on reaching the ears of “the right people”? What counts as evidence, and who determines impact? What trade-offs do we make, and whose voices go unheard?

When the saga of a Black American woman’s hair misadventures became a social media sensation, Irene Wakarindi couldn’t bring herself to laugh. TikTok star Tessica Brown’s “hair that went wrong” is a sobering reminder of the pain that is intimately bound up with persistent prejudices about Black women’s bodies

When Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month in the United States, he was concerned with the way societal anti-Blackness combined physical violence with the violence of dehumanising Black people by erasing their origins, narratives and knowledge, to further disenfranchise them politically.

"A crisis within a crisis.” That's how Dr. Uche Blackstock of the Center for Health Equity described the COVID-19 pandemic on NPR last June.

Meanwhile, “manels” – all-male “expert” panels – remain ubiquitous in coronatime, and surveys by civil society organisations, such as Care’s recent report “Where Are the Women?”, show that “Local women’s rights and women-led organizations and leaders are not being included in decision making around the humanitarian response, or receiving their fair share of funding.”

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The ethical argument for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of health workers