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Wilmington Parks & Recreation launches new website: Learn about our parks, book events, register for youth and adult athletic programs
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WILMINGTON Wilmington Parks & Recreation, a local organization in place to enhance community wellness through outdoor recreation, open space, and natural resources, recently announced the launch of its new website wilmingtonparks.org with updated park pages, maps, and easy shelter reservations and athletic program registration.
Wilmingtonparks.org is a one-stop destination for Wilmington residents to access all the parks, shelters, trails, and related outdoor-activity needs. The site includes a community calendar of events and ideas on how the parks can serve as a great place to host large or small events and celebrations from races, fundraisers, and tournaments to family reunions and birthday parties.
Activists and scholars across a breadth of disciplines gathered virtually for the fifth annual student-run Black Health Matters conference this weekend to discuss the effects of systemic racism on Black health.
The Harvard Undergraduate Black Health Advocates organized the two-day event, which featured a series of keynote addresses, panels, and workshops guided by speakers affiliated with Harvard and organizations around the country.
Abigail Joseph ’21, who served as conference co-president alongside Akosua F. O. Adubofour ’21, said the purpose of the conference was to look at Black health issues through an intersectional lens.
“It felt reductive to always talk about Black people as a monolith, so I wanted our conference to kind of dig into more of those differences and to tease them out health-wise,” she said.
Written by Ana Sandoiu on February 26, 2021
Repeated exposure to socioeconomic adversity, political marginalization, racism, and perpetual discrimination can harm health. In this Special Feature, we explore this harmful effect, which is known as weathering.
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If there is one thing that the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests last year have made abundantly clear, it is this: Racism kills.
But racism and racial discrimination do not just jeopardize people’s lives directly, through violent acts and hate crimes perpetrated by those who hold racist beliefs.
Discrimination and marginalization can also slowly chip away at one’s health, causing those who are at the receiving end of discriminatory attitudes to age or even die prematurely.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Random House, 2020, 496 pp.
In a letter written to W.E.B. Du Bois in 1946, B.R. Ambedkar, the Dalit scholar, activist, and statesman, expressed a keen interest in the plight of black Americans. âI have been a student of the Negro problem and have read your writings throughout,â he wrote. âThere is so much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in India and of the position of the Negroes in America that the study of the latter is not only natural but necessary.â This was not empty sentiment. At roughly the same time that he wrote to Du Bois, Ambedkar was in the process of outlining several constitutional provisions on behalf of his political party, the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation. That document, which contained language aimed at eliminating caste discrimination in India, owed much to its American sources: the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875, which Ambedkar had