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By Willie Burnley Jr. There has long been research suggesting that incarceration has negative health consequences for the incarcerated, but a new study from British medical journal The Lancet indicates that incarceration can negatively impact the...

By Robin Scheralternet By now we can all agree that the real target of Reagan’s enduring war on drugs was never drugs, it was African Americans. But if rising incarceration rates among black youth or the utter failure to curtail drug use is not...

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By Tom Loveless The 2017 Brown Center Report (BCR) on American Education was released this week, and one of the report’s studies focuses on out-of-school suspensions. For the past several years, state education leaders in California have...

Check out the CoHL FAQ page for answers to program questions such as: "Do I have to have a college degree to participate in the program?" or "How much time will the program require each...

By Jack Shuler March 27, 2017 Utica, Ohio—On Election Day, when Chris Cooper walked into his usual precinct to vote, a greeter asked him, “Do you live in this town?” The question was perhaps innocent. After all, there aren’t many people...

By Scott Harrison (Los Angeles Times) March 31 is Cesar Chavez's birthday and a holiday in California, Colorado and Texas. When Chavez died on April 23, 1993, staff writer George Ramos wrote The Times obituary published the next morning. He...

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN) - It's pretty well established that racial segregation limits access to jobs, education, public services and other resources for people in high-poverty neighborhoods. But how does economic and racial segregation in...

By Joshua Schneyer and M.B. Pell (Read...

The U-M School of Public Health and Institute of Social Research team found that after the federal immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, in 2008, Latino babies born in the 37 weeks after the event had a 24 percent greater risk of lower birth weight...