Don’t Normalize Black Death
The families of victims did not ask for their loved ones to become martyrs — they just wanted them to live.
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America’s Forgotten Communities Need Health Equity
The U.S. was founded on the forced labor of enslaved Africans and Indigenous people. Today, this legacy of oppression endures in our health care system, and COVID-19 has only underscored the racism inherent therein. COVID-19’s...
Read MoreIn Defense of American History
American society is in open revolt against its own strength. We unjustly admonish our ancestors, discarding their achievements by assessing character flaws ex post facto. Those who have accomplished comparatively very little,...
Read MoreRename Longstreet-Means. It’s Time.
“Named for the second and fourth presidents of Emory College, Longstreet-Means Hall replaced a residence hall constructed on the same site in 1955. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was a well-known lawyer, minister and author, whose...
Read MoreBefore Cancelling People, Consider Discourse
If anything unifies the increasingly divided Democratic party, it’s support for former President Barack Obama, who still holds approval among 97 percent of Democrats. However, Obama’s recent comments regarding “call-out culture”...
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