by NIAAH Editors | Dec 3, 2021 | Medical Experts & Research, Our Health
Suresh V. Kuchipudi, Penn State A new variant named omicron (B.1.1.529) was reported by researchers in South Africa on Nov. 24, 2021, and designated a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization two days later. Omicron is very unusual in that it is by far...
by NIAAH Editors | Nov 6, 2021 | Our Health, Research
Janelle R. Goodwill, University of Chicago Frederick Douglass is regarded as one of the most prominent abolitionists the world has ever seen. Alongside his extraordinary contributions as an influential speaker, writer and human rights advocate, Douglass – who was born...
by NIAAH Editors | Oct 25, 2021 | Our Health
As a patriot and Black man, Colin Powell embodied the ‘two-ness’ of the African American experience Chad Williams, Brandeis University Colin Powell knew where he fit in American history. The former secretary of state – who died on Oct. 18, 2021, at 84 as a result of...
by NIAAH Editors | Oct 2, 2021 | Our Health
David Miguel Gray, University of MemphisU.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As Republicans, we reject the racial essentialism that critical race theory teaches … that our institutions are racist and need to be...
by NIAAH Editors | Oct 1, 2021 | Our Health
Art Markman, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts Culturally, this is an era in which people are held in high esteem when they stick with their beliefs and negatively labeled as “flip-floppers” or “wishy-washy” when they change what they think....
by NIAAH Editors | Aug 1, 2021 | Our Health
Infection from the coronavirus can produce weaker immunity than vaccination. Wenmei Zhou/ DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Jennifer T. Grier, University of South Carolina As someone who studies immune responses to respiratory infections, I’ve watched news of the...
