The Research of Difference: How UConn Researchers are Tackling Anti-Racism
Black women and heart disease. Asian Americans and plantations. Slavery and…monsters? Find out how these anti-racism scholars are tackling issues of difference at UConn.
In this 1982 Hartford Courant image, Laotian refugees work on a plantation in Simsbury (Courtesy of Jason Oliver Chang). Copy Link
Jolaade Kalinowski comes from what she calls a long line of strong Black women – women who have experienced adversity and life challenges, and who passed down to her the value and beauty of Black feminism, she says.
But with adversity comes stress, and Kalinowski’s family experienced emotional and economic hardship with the loss of her father when she was a child.
markets this morning. the german diamondbacks doax do percentage points. we are half an hour into the press conference. mario draghi says the euro irreversible and that government should be ready to activate the esff. we ll have the latest. knight capital shares continue their free-fall this morning, the company saying the erroneous trade positions resulted in a loss and that its capital base has been severely impacted. retailers on the move this morning, costco beating estimates. steve liesman has the latest on the news conference. steve. melissa, thanks very much. there s some interesting contradiction in what i m hearing draghi say. on the one hand he began strongly saying they ll do whatever it takes, the euro is irreversible, and then he starts to lay out a essentially a plan that says in the next few weeks we ll announce a plan effectively to buy bonds. he later says it will be a plan to buy bonds on the shorter end, different from the sfp. a couple questions that are
certainly heavy duty earnings load. that top it is road map this morning. goldman sachs boosts the dividend 31% and bought back 3 million shares last quarter. can this continue to fuel the rally. and coke, volume growth. up better than expected. 5 prn. the company making gains in the slower sparkling market as well. can we see cracks in the apple story? they suffer the biggest five session losing streak since 2009. there could be concerned over mac sales, a mini pad or does this launch the slow down of the apple juggernaut? and first solar cut as third of the work force, 2,000 jobs saying operations in europe are no longer economically sustainable. we have to start with goldman sachs beating forecasts. $3.92 a share. revenues down 16% from a year ago. raising its quarterly defensive gent to 46 cents a share from 35 cents. there are interesting lines of business. thick wasn t as strong as the reading from citi, but it was decent and investment banking revenues for do