Editor’s note: From time to time, The Conversation asks leaders in America’s colleges and universities to address some of the most pressing issues in our nation. Here we ask Earl Lewis, director and founder of the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, and Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers University – Newark, a diverse, urban public research university, about how numbers and statistics matter when examining institutional racism, the Capitol riot and Black Lives Matter.
How has media reporting on numbers and statistics affected the public’s view of race?
Nancy Cantor: Society’s accounting of the summer of 2020 through Inauguration Day 2021 demonstrates the hard way numbers play into a long-standing history of racism and white privilege. Some national leaders equated a crowd of mostly white Capitol Hill rioters to largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests. Yet analyses show that the overall levels of violence and property destruction during BLM protes
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Grand Strand organizations prep for Phase 1B of vaccine distribution
Preparing for Phase 1B of COVID-19 vaccine By Katherine Phillips | January 21, 2021 at 7:51 PM EST - Updated January 21 at 7:51 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - While there’s still frustration surrounding the rollout for Phase 1A, preparations for Phase 1B are already underway.
DHEC has started contacting businesses and organizations that could be in the upcoming phase, so they can better understand how many vaccines they might need.
Phase 1B includes a wide range of essential workers, including staff at homeless shelters.
We’re learning more about how vaccines within Phase 1B will be distributed when the time comes. Staff at homeless shelters are included- including New Directions. I’ll have more info at 5&6 on @wmbfnewspic.twitter.com/DOpL1jLXHV Katherine Phillips WMBF (@KatPhillipsTV) January 21, 2021
now a break in the case, of susan powell. she disappeared, leaving behind two small boise and their husband. abc s abbie boudreau is in salt lake city with the latest. good morning, the search has puzzled investigator, leaving them with few answers. finally a break in the case. yesterday a police search found human bones. reporter: the discovery made here, in the rugged area near topaz mountain, a popular campsite, 30 miles away from the one josh powell says he took his children to that snowy, winter night, when his wife mysteriously disappeared. it does bother me that it s in the same general area. and the more i learn about the location, the more it bothers me. reporter: josh powell hasn t been charged in his wife s disappearance. but police say he remains the only person of interest in the investigation. we have a lot of things that need to be resolved. and unfortunately, we re just not he s not complying. i believe the police are doing as good a job with the