It’s been 1 year since Seattle’s Mayor signed a racial and social justice law, placing its existing Race and Social Justice Initiative under the city’s office of civil rights and charging the whole city government with ‘implementing change toward ending institutional racism.’

Lessons for other cities from the first year:
https://theconversation.com/what-cities-can-learn-from-seattles-racial-and-social-justice-law-225765
#Seattle #Cities #USPolitics @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

“One of the more unfortunate developments is that people have started injecting meth.”

We partnered with the Daily Yonder for a Q&A with William Garriot, an anthropologist who says the impact of meth on rural communities in the U.S. has only gotten worse (but it’s not just a rural problem):

https://theconversation.com/how-meth-became-an-epidemic-in-america-and-whats-happening-now-that-its-faded-from-the-headlines-225638
#health #rural #cities

How meth became an epidemic in America, and what’s happening now that it’s faded from the headlines

An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.

^{The Conversation}