Having Health Experts on Staff Doesn’t Mean Doing the Right Thing

Having Health Experts on Staff Doesn’t Mean Doing the Right Thing

Johns Hopkins University, known as one of the world’s leading public health institutions, and the most frequently cited COVID-19 data source in the daily news, insists on its undergraduate students and many graduate students returning to in-person classes. Focusing on...
Baltimore: A Sick Society, Racism, and COVID-19

Baltimore: A Sick Society, Racism, and COVID-19

In Baltimore City, Maryland, the living legacy of racial segregation, economic inequality and poverty dominate the health of the population. Like many U.S. cities, Baltimore has a large population of people of color, and the deeply ingrained racism in society is...
Food Deserts in a Pandemic

Food Deserts in a Pandemic

Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic. Like other people in impoverished communities in Baltimore and around the country, Douglass Homes residents have few...