Book Review of Cole Arthur Riley’s This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us
Cole Arthur Riley. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us. Convergent Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0-593-23979-7.In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Susan Moore, an African-American physician in Indiana, was hospitalized with the virus. She caught … Continue reading Book Review of Cole Arthur Riley’s This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us
Health Code
Health care is a major issue in this country. There are numerous factors that contribute to the state of our health: diet, exercise, and access to good hospitals are just a few. Yet recent research has revealed that your zip … Continue reading Health Code
Voluntary Benevolence or Mandatory Taxation?
The wealthy of any nation have benefited from their culture, tax benefits, freedoms, relative privilege, and struggle. Let each person give voluntarily to needs we are compassionate towards AND ALSO let us all contribute our fair share to society through taxation in proportion to the benefits and success gained therein. Continue reading Voluntary Benevolence or Mandatory Taxation?
Thanksgiving Table
Thanksgiving is the first American holiday, and perhaps its most complicated. At surface level, we tell our children cute stories about pilgrims and Native Americans sharing resources and celebrating their partnership. In reality, we know there’s much more to the … Continue reading Thanksgiving Table
Is There Really an Effort to Dismantle Health Inequity in America?
I often wonder how much our indigenous brothers and sisters regret feeding the “illegal immigrants” who arrived in what we now call “The Americas.” Genocide and Boarding schools ensued shortly after the arrival of the “settlers” who came upon a … Continue reading Is There Really an Effort to Dismantle Health Inequity in America?
November’s Theme: Thanksgiving, Collaboration, and the Dismantling of Barriers to Health Equity
In a day of renown by some and mourning by others, the majority culture shared resources with new minority immigrant families, bettered their lives, and gave their sustenance and care a fighting chance. “Thanksgiving as a holiday originates from the … Continue reading November’s Theme: Thanksgiving, Collaboration, and the Dismantling of Barriers to Health Equity
Health Equity – Trust, Then Verify
Early in my professional career, I heard an unfamiliar phrase from a corporate CEO during a town hall meeting. The CEO asked everyone in the organization to follow his lead and “Trust first, then, if necessary, verify.” At that time, … Continue reading Health Equity – Trust, Then Verify
Two Poems by Julie L. Moore
Legacy Museum Montgomery, Alabam I made this proposition to the owners of the negroes: If you will give me Anarcha and Betsey for experiment, I agree to perform no experiment or operation on either of them to endanger their lives, … Continue reading Two Poems by Julie L. Moore
A National Day of Mourning
For me and many others, the month of November has always been associated with Thanksgiving. While many of us non-Native Americans are eating our turkey and cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving Day, Native, or First Nations, Peoples are honoring a Day … Continue reading A National Day of Mourning
Three-Fifths 