Michelle Obama’s new book reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin. This is a dangerous proposition. by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2019 Michelle Obama’s popularity is a remarkable political feat. Her ascent into the public spotlight, after all, began as a receptacle of rightwing misogynoir. From the
by Henry Louis Taylor, 2019 The task facing survivors of a nuclear holocaust in the United States is not simply to rebuild society, but to construct a new civilization based on social, racial and economic justice. The realization of this task requires more than reconstructing a replica of the old society. That world was a
Poverty Forum: Recommendations to Erie County by Henry Louis Taylor, 2017 Neighborhoods matter in the quest to mitigate the harmful effects of poverty and low-incomes on the lives of Erie County residents. An abundant literature argues that neighborhood contexts are, in themselves, important determinants of the life chances and outcomes of people’s lives. The individual,
Higher education-community partnerships for democracy and social change by Henry Louis Taylor, 2017 The purpose of my presentation is to explore the role that higher education can play in attacking the low-income problem. It will be divided into two part. The first part will critique the poverty paradigm, while the second part will discuss the
Students took everyday items – plywood palettes and garbage totes – and turned them into neighborhood beatification projects for their own communities through a Center for Urban Studies summer camp program. By Henry Louis Taylor, 2017 The 2017 program marks the fifth year for the Center for Urban Studies annual Summer Academic Camp on Neighborhood
“The neighborhood…should be the crucial entry point for policy-making and health intervention.” by Henry Louis Taylor, 2016 The Havana confab brought together public health and social scientists from sixteen different Latin American countries, and focused on three interrelated themes: the social determinants of health; food security and nutrition, and the prevention and control of disease. During the
By Dr. Lori Martin, 2016 No, Baton Rouge is not burning. Baton Rouge is a city divided by many fault lines. A single street divides the city’s predominately white and black communities. North Baton Rouge, where Alton Sterling was killed, is under developed relative to south Baton Rouge. Access to emergency rooms, quality schools, healthy
Electing African-American political leaders has done little to alleviate the suffering of Black America By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor , 2016 This year marks the 50th anniversary of many of the most significant events of the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1960s. Two years ago, we celebrated the March on Washington; last year we recognized the 1964
By Emily Badger, 2016 Flint, Ferguson, New Orleans and Baltimore — cities now inseparable from the national news stories centered there — became calamities for separate reasons. One was a natural disaster (made worse by human error), another a wholly man-made crisis. The two others began with police violence, but in disparate settings: the newly impoverished suburbs and the long-distraught inner city. Flint
By Henry Louis Taylor, 2016 On Monday, January 18, 2016, the pundits and talking heads will be telling us about Martin Luther King’s Dream and what he would think about the United States today. A careful re-reading of King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech and his 1968 book, Where Do We Go from Here, suggests
