![]() ![]() They say that MSF operates a two-tiered tiered system that favors foreign doctors, or expat doctors, over local health workers. In the summer of 2020, more than 1,000 current and former staffers wrote a letter calling out institutional racism at MSF. While foreign doctors parachuting into crisis zones get most of the attention, 90 percent of the work is being done by local health workers. The organization, also known by its French acronym MSF, has about 63,000 people working in 88 countries. ![]() But now, it’s struggling to address institutional racism. It’s an organization with radical roots, promising to do whatever it takes to deliver life-saving care to people in need. Please reload the page and try again.Īpple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | S titcher | Pandora | Amazon Musicįor decades, Doctors Without Borders has been admired for bringing desperately needed medical care to crises around the globe and pioneering modern-day humanitarian aid. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. ![]()
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![]() “Americans worry about 2020 being another 2000, but the real worry is another 1876,” with Erik Alexander (Made by History, Outlook Section, October 20, 2020) slavery, and the memory and culture of the mid-nineteenth century.Īs the director of the Richards Center, I oversee several important projects on Civil War-era America, including the Society of Civil War Historians biennial meeting, the flagship journal of the period The Journal of the Civil War Era, the annual Brose Lecture and Book Series, and several others. I teach courses on the Civil War era, political and constitutional history, the history of U.S. Supreme Court from the 1830s to the 1890s. My current book project, entitled The Politics of Judging, examines the political culture of the U.S. ![]() Civil War era with a focus on politics, slavery, and law. ![]() I am an associate professor at Penn State University and the Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America-now in paperback with a new afterword by the author, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016. In the time leading up to this case and this decision. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Supreme Court, who then ruled that segregation was inherently unequal and unconstitutional, specifically in the public school system. Topeka Board of Education made it to the U.S. Ferguson, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) participated in many court cases to demonstrate these disparities. Under segregation, Black communities and institutions (such as schools) always received far less funding and government support than white communities and institutions. Ferguson-stated that racial segregation was not unconstitutional. Supreme Court decision-in the case of Plessy v. Chapter 3 is entitled “Burning Brown to the Ground.” Beginning in the 1800s, and continuing into the 1900s, Black Americans’ lives were consistently affected by racial segregation and oppression. ![]() ![]() In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic-and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France-a girl. Hopefully this book delivers."-Andrew Fukuda ![]() I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. "I remember visiting Manzanar and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the American Library Association's Asi an/Pacific American Award for Literatureįor readers of The Librarian Of Auschwitz, This Light Between Us is a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals-a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl-as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() He could almost see her, almost hear her Boston Brahman accent. ![]() The lively conversation around him faded. The feeling wasn’t as vicious as it had once been, but was still ferocious enough to carve up his insides. The child he and Catherine had tried so hard to have. She was pregnant with his child, dammit! The child he was determined would carry his name. Yet he couldn’t remember any issue, any recalcitrant bureaucrat or political pundit, who frustrated him as much as Gina St. Stress rode on his shoulders like hundred-pound weights. His job demanded long days and long nights. Recently he’d returned to State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., to translate his hard-won field knowledge into policies and procedures that would improve the security of U.S. As such, he’d traveled to some of the most volatile, violent trouble spots in the world. He himself had served in several diplomatic posts before being appointed the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism at the ripe old age of thirty-two. Jack’s father and grandfather had served as advisors to presidents in times of national crisis. He came from a long line of coolheaded, clear-thinking Virginians who believed their vast wealth brought with it equally great responsibility. Pretty much his exact opposite, Jack thought grimly as he tracked her progress across the crowded room. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everybody in Autoville seemed to have gathered inside and out of the clubhouse, and people were waiting in line for the use of the Ping-Pong table. They raced around the park in their oilskin capes and hoods and sloshed up the steps to the cafeteria veranda. They’ve already brought in so much mud Trixie and I’ll have to spend most of the morning scrubbing the place.” “And please don’t let the dogs follow us. If either of you should catch cold it would ruin the trip.” ![]() “I’ll take a nap, but wear your slickers and rubbers. Let’s dash over to the restaurant and play some Ping-Pong before dinner.” The rain kept up a steady drumming on the roof of the trailer all day, and the girls were forced to play indoor games and read, but it was hard to control their impatience.Īt last Trixie said restlessly, “I can’t stand being cooped up here any longer. Sure enough, it was already sprinkling when the girls returned their horses to the riding academy, and they had to run all the way to the Swan to keep from getting soaked. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luke took the coffee and gave Gran the answer he gave everyone: Better. He’d left six years ago in such a fury of pride and defiance-and had returned home so full of bitterness and dissatisfaction-that he couldn’t quite understand how Gran found it possible to be nice to him. How are you feeling? Gran asked as she approached him with a cup of coffee. And the anger and frustration made him mean to just about everyone, including his grandmother who’d just come up behind him. That threatened his career worse than the largest, meanest bull on earth. He could think stand but couldn’t feel it, even when he was standing. Now, he couldn’t always tell where his leg ended and the ground began. Luke could ride in pain, could win in pain-he had, in fact, on dozens of occasions. It messed with his mind and defied submission. The numbness he fought now? That was a whole other kind of enemy. ![]() ![]() Luke hadn’t come close to winning the Touring Pro Series championship by paying attention to pain. Sure, you got hurt-everyone got hurt-but you cowboyed up after an injury and got back in there, period. Bull riding was dangerous-that’s what made it exciting. Every bull rider knew pain went with the territory. Pain came with a life spent trying to stay on top of 1,700 pounds of bucking bull. Luke Buckton stood on the porch of the Blue Thorn Ranch, his childhood home, disgusted at how he needed to grip the handrail to keep his balance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also because he had been counted out in most of his life and career, and he had proved them all wrong. It wasn't only because of his belief in his teammates, led by the master of the comeback, his friend and quarterback Tom Brady-or the coaching staff run by the legendary Bill Belichick. When the Patriots were down 28-3 in Super Bowl LI, there was at least one player who refused to believe they would lose: Julian Edelman. The Super Bowl champion wide receiver for the New England Patriots shares his inspiring story of an underdog kid who was always doubted to becoming one of the most reliable and inspiring players in the NFL. Tom Brady: "It's a privilege for me to play with someone as special as Julian." ![]() Bill Belichick: "Julian is the epitome of competitiveness, toughness, and the great things that are possible when someone is determined to achieve their goals." ![]() ![]() ![]() When she sent it off to her editor, she warned that it was “a bit on the gloomy side,” and she had serious doubts about whether people would read it. She became consumed with jealousy of this dead woman, and that jealousy inspired her novel Rebecca (1938). But du Maurier found some letters written to her husband by his former fiancée, who had committed suicide. He sailed to Cornwall to see it for himself, and met the author, and three months later they were married. She published her first novel when she was 24, and her descriptions of Cornwall captivated an army major named Frederick Browning. She and her sister loved to explore the coast, and she wrote about it in many of her books and stories. Her parents bought a summer home in Cornwall when du Maurier was a teenager, and she felt a strong affinity for the place. “All I can remember … is someone who looked at me with a sort of disapproving irritation, a queer unexplained hostility.” “I can’t remember once being held by her, feeling her arms round me, sitting on her lap,” she told a friend. Her mother, as du Maurier remembered her, was a cold woman. Her father was a successful actor-manager, and he was frequently unfaithful. ![]() ![]() Her parents were wealthy, but bohemian, theater people. It’s the birthday of English novelist Daphne du Maurier, born in London (1907). “Bad News Good News” by Marjorie Saiser from I Have Nothing to Say About Fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Howe examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs-advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans-were the true prophets of America's future. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. ![]() ![]() These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent.Ī panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. ![]() The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. ![]() |