Archive for June 2024

Leah Buckle explains that the loss of previous attitudes towards sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa stemmed from the spread of Christian values by the colonisers.

People who experience prolonged depressive symptoms starting in young adulthood may have worse thinking and memory skills in middle age, according to a new study. The study also found that depressive symptoms were experienced more often by Black adults than white adults.

Inmates exercise at Stanley Prison on Hong Kong Island.

The pandemic fueled a boom in social justice movements and indie bookstores. The two come together in these worker-owned shops. Above: Raquel Espasande is one of several employees at the worker-owned Bluestockings Cooperative in New York City — which provides, among other free services, food to homeless people and English lessons to asylum seekers.

A data-driven intervention that engaged communities to rapidly deploy evidence-based practices to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths – such as increasing naloxone distribution and enhancing access to medication for opioid use disorder – did not result in a statistically significant reduction in opioid-related overdose death rates during the evaluation period, according to results(link is external) from the National Institutes of Health’s HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-Term) Communities Study.

UNC professor Larry Chavis’s contract was not renewed for the fall after 18 years with the university…. Chavis declined to go into much detail about his experience with the university since he learned of the recording. But he said that as a lifelong North Carolinian, teaching at Chapel Hill was a dream that he’s disappointed to see end in conflict.

As someone who over the past 50 years has thought about and written many books and articles on U.S. feminism, I should have been less surprised by the strong electoral backlash to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, a judgment that overturned the 1973 Roe V. Wade decree and thus 50 years of national abortion rights. Above: Demonstrators rally for abortion rights outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 1971.

How successful was the reorganization of Social Work Centers (SWC), implemented in 2018 by the Ministry of Labor, Family, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities? The ministry, SWC employees, and users have different opinions.