1. Released Emails Suggest Officials Knew About Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak a Year Ago
The email, obtained by Progress Michigan, shows that an adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder — Director of Urban Affairs Harvey Hollins — was notified of a significant uptick in the Legionnaires’ disease coinciding with the switch over to the Flint River as a water source.
2. LISTEN: Uncomfortable Is Not the Same as Unsafe. White People Need to Lean in to the Discomfort.
Jim Wallis spoke at Westminster Town Hall Forum in Minneapolis, streamed on MPR. Take a listen to the great talk.
3. WATCH: ‘Pharma Bro’ Goes to Washington
And it’s predictably gross.
4. Here’s What Pope Francis Wants You to Give Up for Lent This Year
“No need to throw out the chocolate, booze, and carbs. Pope Francis has a different idea for fasting this year.”
5. Women’s Ambition Erodes Over Time, Says Researcher
“But while men’s ambition increases over time, women’s decreases. My research suggests that this drop is not associated with wanting to have kids, or to stay home and look after them. It’s related to not having support, mentors, or role models to make it to the top, and the subtle biases against women that lead to their choices.” (Emphasis ours.)
6. WATCH: The History of Whiteness
"'White.' You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means." Kat Blaque breaks it down in a fact-packed 7.5 minutes.
“United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic raped or sexually exploited at least eight women and girls between October and December 2015. … The UN can send troops home and prohibit them from participating in future UN missions, but has no independent capacity to prosecute them.”
8. The #FlintWaterCrisis Photo Everyone Should See
Photographer Heather Wilson is in Flint documenting the ongoing crisis. Her photos speak for themselves.
9. Tech Has No Space for Breastfeeding Moms
If innovative tech minds can’t find solutions for ensuring breastfeeding moms are accommodated, what hope is there for the workforce at large?
"What amazed me most is that every one of these women, including me, initially saw this struggle as their failing, rather than an institutional one. We’d all been quietly enduring, questioning, and judging ourselves because we feared that we might look less focused at work, might be seen as less of a mother, or simply assumed that this was the cross we had to bear in exchange for ‘having it all.’"
10. The Racist Past — and Potential Future — of U.S. Immigration Policies
“It is not surprising that candidates seeking to navigate a path to the nomination of a party that is 93 percent white would promote policies and rhetoric that would make America white again. Although it’s perhaps surprising to hear the words spoken out loud today, a ‘whites only’ immigration system has actually been the policy of the United States for most of its history.”
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