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I write about social and health policy and Black history and culture. I'm a fellow at the Urban Institute. Opinions are my own.

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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.”

08.03.2026 16:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

27.01.2026 12:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2

I deeply appreciate the clarity of your vision!

22.02.2025 23:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

22.02.2025 23:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

31.01.2025 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

17.01.2025 19:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

12.01.2025 15:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

Nailed it!

20.12.2024 21:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

13.12.2024 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.12.2024 21:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d like to be added. Thanks, Faith

14.11.2024 22:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0