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Demonstrators stand outside the Florida State Capitol on Feb. 15, 2023 in Tallahassee, Fla., to protest Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to eliminate AP courses on African American studies in high schools. (Joshua Lott / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

BY BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL | Education is largely based on perspectives that do not reflect the fact that more than half the world’s population are people of color and female. It’s only when all students are able to recognize themselves in history that they can imagine a future in which they play an important role in the progress and achievement of the world.

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The nation’s oldest college’s first Black leader, Claudine Gay speaks to the crowd after being named Harvard University’s next president on Dec. 15, 2022. (Erin Clark / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

BY JANEL GEORGE | As a Black woman academic, it has been painful to witness the attacks on the character of Claudine Gay—Harvard University’s former president and its first Black leader—and their after-effects. However, as a scholar of education, race and the law, these attacks also ring familiar. The project of white supremacy is to instill panic, to distort history and facts, to erase the contributions of Black and other minoritized people.

White supremacy appeals to the basest parts of us by stoking our fears, stereotypes and biases. It relies on disregard for the truth. It relies on resistance to recognizing the humanity of Black and other minoritized people. It appeals to the worst in America. And I believe it will take the best of America to affirmatively defeat it. 

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Anti-abortion marchers and parishioners walk from the Old St. Patrick’s Church to a Planned Parenthood clinic where they pray as a protest against abortions, on April 1, 2023 in New York City. (Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Catholic priests and bishops perpetrate and tolerate astounding levels of sexual violence, and then deny their victims the right to prevent or end life-threatening pregnancies.

The all-male Catholic leadership’s long history of perpetuating sexual assault and reproductive coercion grows out of a toxic masculinity that devalues women’s lives, rights and dignity. Both are forms of intimate assault that deny the bodily autonomy of women in particular.

Given the Catholic Church’s history of clergy sexual abuse, and their callous disregard for the reproductive health and safety of women, why are priests and bishops considered to have any moral authority on issues of sexuality?

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Over the past several years, we’ve made significant progress in destigmatizing mental health care. However, this de-stigmatization hasn’t reached all kinds of mental illness or all kinds of people who struggle with their mental health. Writer, researcher, and poet, Krista L.R. Cezair, and writer, activist and educator, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, join us to discuss the criminalization of mental illness on the latest UNITED BODIES. 

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