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Antonio Jenkins paints a mural of George Floyd at the site where he was murdered by a police officer in 2020 at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, on May 25, 2024. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)

The legacy of anti‑Black racism: The public health crisis of racial trauma

Ingrid Waldron, McMaster University

Resolving Black trauma must involve challenging the colonial and imperial legacies that reside within psychiatry and other mental health professions.
Environmentally dangerous dumps, landfills and pulp and paper mills are more likely to be sited in African Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaw communities. These communities suffer from high rates of cancer and respiratory illness. (Shutterstock)

Environmental racism: New study investigates whether Nova Scotia dump boosted cancer rates in nearby Black community

Ingrid Waldron, McMaster University and Juliet Daniel, McMaster University

Black residents of Shelburne, N.S., spent decades living near a dump, worrying about its possible connection to elevated cancer rates. A new study will investigate the dump’s long-term consequences.

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