Monthly Archives: January 2015

Nursing Homes for People of Color:
Still Segregated, Still Unequal

If Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, he would be 86. If he was like many elderly black Americans, he might well end up in a nursing home ranked lower in quality and with less well-trained nursing staff than … Continue reading

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Happy Dogmatic New Year’s: Here’s How You Lose Weight

I don’t have any magic bullets on weight loss to show you here, but in the spirit of this blog, I give you some voices from the street. When the topic of weight loss came up in a phone call … Continue reading

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