Think they could handle a walk through Compton?

The Artificial Incarceration-Immigration Funding Divide Two funding leaders make a forceful case that siloed grantmaking is holding advocates back from confronting Trump-era immigrant detention and solitary confinement.

Immigrants are routinely placed in solitary confinement for periods beyond what the UN identifies as torture. If it acts now, philanthropy has an opportunity to prevent the worst outcomes.
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“After spending several months in Iraq, Bremer still appears to be unfamiliar with the population he is meant to reshape.”

This is the man who snarled at me once that the social sciences “have nothing to teach us.”

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

With nuance and deep insight, @adamserwer.bsky.social shares the situation on the ground in Minneapolis—and how it shatters MAGA’s disunifying visions of community.

I deeply appreciate the clarity of your vision!

I've been thinking about this, and was hoping @adamserwer.bsky.social would write about it. He sees through the noise to the central issues.

Black Kansans in Review: Health Although data serve as an important tool for monitoring health and health inequities, Kansas’s data landscape for Black health is fragmented across several different sources, which prevents compiling ...

@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social just published this report. Sadly, I wasn't surprised that Black Kansans had the highest risk of death for several diseases. But the lack of racially disaggregated data was dismaying. There was a lot we couldn't find out. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires As multimillion-dollar mansions in celebrity enclaves dominate headlines, Black communities in Altadena face an uphill battle to rebuild their lives.

Adam Mahoney has done a beautiful job here of combining insights related to race, the environment, and the insurance industry.

Generational Black Homes in LA Reduced to Ash Amid Growing Wildfires capitalbnews.org/california-w...

Suddenly R's believe in the social determinants of health, and by social determinants they mean "it's your fault and your problem."

Why It Matters: Because we're all getting dumber by the hour here.

Nailed it!

Great piece! Thanks for writing it. The lack of racial data for European countries hampers cross-national research as well as progress within their own countries.

We pay the most among our peer countries and have the least to show for it.

I’d like to be added. Thanks, Faith