The impact of COVID-19 in America is startling. It has resulted in record-setting unemployment rates, one of the larges economic downturns in U.S. history, all while – at the time of this publication – the infection rate is accelerating. It doesn’t take actively losing your home or your employment to feel stress in these trying times; you’d be right to do so. As college students, there have always been myriad stressors and obstacles to education even before the pandemic. With these new terrors, a worryingly common way of attempting to deal with them remains: intoxication. To some students, booze and…
Author: Jack Chamberlain
On Friday evening, September 18th, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg succumbed to the myriad difficulties of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. While posterity will certainly refer to her death in some banal manner linked to the chaotic political climate of our time, today we honor the human behind the history. There will be a need to consider the figure of Justice Ginsburg and the gravity of her absence, but that can wait. For now, she is deserving of remembrance for the woman she was and by the impact of her actions. Joan Ruth was born in New York in 1933, just thirteen years after the adoption of the 19th amendment, the protection of a woman’s right to vote. Her formal education began at Cornell…
Events will be relayed in the order in which they occurred. Video archives of Council meetings can be found at Council Meeting Video Archives. Presentations by citizens: Representative of the organization “Sistah Strut” raised awareness of free mammogram screening services for women in the fight against breast cancer and assistance with housekeeping for women undergoing treatment of breast cancer. Additional awareness was brought to the increased likelihood for women of color to die from breast cancer than their counterparts of other ethnicities. More “Sistah Strut” information can be found at – https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/Sistah-Strut-Alabama-946569675409016/ Constituent complaint / wish to redress a grievance with Mayor Woodfin over garbage pickup in a residential neighborhood. A change was made to the location of garbage removal for a Homewood neighborhood from the alley behind the…