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Warning Shots: Burlington's Immigrant Community Seeks Solutions to the Gun Violence That Is Claiming Youths

The fatal shooting of Hussein Mubarak on Burlington's Luck Street and the arrest of Abdiaziz Abdhikadir revealed a largely unseen dimension of Burlington’s escalating gun violence problem. Amid the unprecedented spike in gunfire, families that came to Vermont to escape conflicts abroad are now losing children to violence in its endemic American form. ....

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Column | Unequal Treatment: A Professor Schools Legislators on Biases in Health Care


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Tim Newcomb
What s all this talk we hear about systemic racism? In progressive, chill Vermont, such a thing couldn t be a problem. Well, OK, maybe racial bigotry pops up occasionally in web comments or the remarks of unenlightened people. But in a professional health care setting where you re talking with doctors and nurses, you d never see or hear it, right?
Wrong.
Maria Mercedes Avila is devoting her career to combating the systemic biases that interfere with the delivery of good medicine to patients because of factors such as their race, sexual orientation or status as immigrants. A PhD who is an associate professor of pediatrics and an adjunct assistant professor of nursing at the University of Vermont and its Larner College of Medicine, Avila testified about her work one morning last week before the Vermont House Health Care Committe ....

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