Author: Jhana Mosley

The flaws in the healthcare system are not being addressed, leading to distrust in the Black community and creating a false narrative according to ethicist and writer Harriet Washington. Washington researches the exploitation of Black bodies and common misconceptions about the Black community due to the shortcomings of the American healthcare system and the media surrounding it. According to her, when clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccines were being conducted and misinformation was spreading, the media was blaming the Tuskegee experiment for Black people’s skepticism without evidence or studies. To dispel this myth, she looked to the data on clinical trials. “I [requested the data] and I saw African Americans represented both [Moderna and Pfizer] piles by approximately…

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Author: Jhana Mosley The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center partnered with Queer Peers and SafeZone for LGBTQ History Month and brought an expert to present on the trials of lesbians, gay men and trans people in Nazi Germany during World War II. Laurie Marhoefer, author of “Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis” and associate professor at the University of Washington offered insight into the other victims of the Holocaust in order to bring attention to the full history. “Initially, gay men were not recognized as a victim group who were persecuted by the…

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