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Chelsea Manning and DeRay Mckesson
Foreign Affairs Symposium
Chelsea Manning: 'The objective is to do something'
Published April 3, 2018
In JHU talk, polarizing activist discusses her decision to leak classified documents
Children play on a bridge
THIS WEEKEND
Students support Rohingya relief effort
Published March 29, 2018
JHU's Muslim Student Association raises money to support a group of people who have been systematically driven from their homes in Myanmar
Four people on a panel
Race in America
Taking stock of Puerto Rico
Published March 28, 2018
Six months after Hurricane Maria, experts explore storm's impacts on island in panel discussion
Naloxone
Public Health
Who should be trained to use naloxone?
Published March 27, 2018
The people who witness the most overdoses—and are best positioned to prevent and reverse them—tend to be drug users themselves
A little boy peeks out from his hockey mask
Film
Being 7 in Baltimore
Published March 26, 2018
'7 in the City' project, which received Idea Lab funding in 2017, will premiere 12 short documentaries and a related web project in May
Handgun
Gun policy
The case for funding firearm research
Published March 20, 2018
As gun policy debate rages, scientists say funding for research is critical / Wired
A boy carries a case of water
Race in America
Public health crises in Puerto Rico
Published March 19, 2018
March 27 panel discussion will examine island's public health needs following devastation caused by Hurricane Maria
Samantha Power
Foreign Affairs Symposium
Four takeaways from Samantha Power's talk
Published March 14, 2018
Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. discusses current political climate, addresses issue raised by student protesters
An all-seeing eye in the sky is a computer
Computer, P.I.
Published Spring 2018
If computers could analyze the contexts and relationships of photographs, videos, audio, text documents, and internet activity, they could become digital detectives / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Excerpt from cover of Medicalizing Blackness
History
Medicine and race
Published Spring 2018
Hopkins alum's new book examines racist medical ideas about blackness that were used to justify slavery and still influence medical disparities today / Johns Hopkins Magazine