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Several stories showing racial profiling of black Americans by police and white Americans continue to go viral — in one video, a white woman calls the cops on a black man babysitting two white children in Georgia. In another, a white student calls 911 when she sees a black classmate sleeping in a dormitory common room. In this essay, a former police dispatcher remembers the racist calls she used to take every day and law enforcement’s rules that forced her to respond to every caller,...

Since the spring of 2015, the Education Redesign Lab has partnered with the Partnership for Resilience to accelerate collaboration between the Illinois Education Association (the NEA affiliated teacher’s union) and the Illinois chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Their new report, Early Lessons in Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Creating School-Health-Community Partnerships to Improve the Lives of Children , describes the launch and early lessons of the Partnership for...

This is an obituary for Madelyn Linsenmeir written by her sister, Kate O'Neill, who was interviewed on NPR about why the family was so open about Madelyn's addiction. Our beloved Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir died on Sunday, October 7. While her death was unexpected, Madelyn suffered from drug addiction, and for years we feared her addiction would claim her life. We are grateful that when she died, she was safe and she was with her family. Maddie was born on March 31, 1988, in Burlington, Vt.,...

Members of Florida's health, mental health, child-serving agencies, faith-based communities, law enforcement groups and others are invited to attend a free webinar tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. EST on trauma response and how to better help communities find resilience following natural disasters. You can register for the webinar now by clicking on this link . Elaine Miller Karas , executive director of the Trauma Resource Institute in Claremont, CA, will lead the webinar. It will be recorded and...

America is suffering from a lack of empathy. That was clearly illustrated in the recent news that pipe bombs had being sent to leading Democratic Party figures — just as it was last year when Republican members of Congress were shot upon by an angry leftist. Americans are losing the ability to walk in someone else’s shoes, to appreciate someone else’s point of view. [For more on this story by Times-Union Editorial Board, go to...

Gwyneth Barbara was surprised when, on April 16 of this year, she received a query in response to the passport application she had submitted just a month before. Barbara, who asked that Rewire.News not use her last name, was born in the United States—in her parents’ Kansas farmhouse, to be exact. The letter Barbara received from the U.S. Passport Agency said that because she was born outside of an institution, her birth certificate was not enough to prove her citizenship. In a recent phone...

At New York City’s Harvest Collegiate High School on Monday, social studies teacher Andy del Calvo did what educators often do: He adapted his lesson for the times. He shared news stories about the massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue and about last week’s shooting of two African-Americans at a Kentucky supermarket, and urged his students to think. Del Calvo hoped that examining America’s latest heartbreaking moments would give his students a chance to process their feelings,...

Epigenetics refers to the study of a natural phenomenon and to the phenomenon itself. Epigenetics is the study of the mechanisms that turn on and off the expression of our genes without altering the DNA sequence. Epigenetics is also used to refer to the changes in expression of our genes. Factors such as age, nutritional habits, psychological stress, physical activity, working habits and substance abuse can trigger changes in gene expression (Alegría-Torres, 2011). These changes in gene...

The world’s oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could be set to warm even faster than predicted in the years ahead, according to new research published Wednesday. Over the past quarter-century, Earth’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat each year than scientists previously had thought, said Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the startling study published Wednesday in the journal...

There are many reasons why the opioid crisis is so hard to confront. One of them is social stigma. It often extends beyond users themselves, to their families. Hope and Pete Troxell live in Frederick, Maryland. Last year, their 34-year-old daughter Alicia died after overdosing on fentanyl – a synthetic form of heroin. She was seven months pregnant. Hope says before Alicia's death, they often felt the weight of judgment. "So many people look at these [people] that are addicted to drugs, they...

Behavioral risk factors including smoking, obesity, limited physical activity and a less healthy diet strongly predict the likelihood of depression—and that likelihood increases with each additional risk factor a person possesses. Additionally, the risk factors most strongly linked to depression change with age. Previous studies had identified behavioral risk factors for depression , but it was unclear how these variables changed across the lifespan. This study sought to identify how the...

Hi ACEs Connection folks! The Wrestling Ghosts team is proud to announce that we premiered at the LA Film Festival to a standing ovation - and were met with a second standing ovation at our Oakland premiere days later. We are so excited about all the positive feedback Kim's story is getting, and we want to keep you all updated with future screenings. Wrestling Ghosts is coming to NYC this November 11th. We will make our tri-state area debut at DOC NYC, at the Cinepolis Chelsea, at 5:30pm. If...