Category: Social issues

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Hawkins Family (L-R, Back row: Tiffany Hawkins, Tammy Hawkins, Lee Hawkins, Jr. Front row: Lee Hawkins, Sr. and Roberta Hawkins)

From Alabama to Minnesota: The Legacy of Jim Crow

Lee Hawkins unpacks his family history and upbringing in What Happened In Alabama?, a podcast to end the cycles of trauma for Lee, his family, and Black America. Hawkins Family (L-R, Back row: Tiffany Hawkins, Tammy Hawkins, Lee Hawkins, Jr. Front row: Lee Hawkins, Sr.

Opinion | Are Embryos Property or People? Even the Courts Don’t Know

OPINION   Are Embryos Property? Human Life? Neither? The Embryo Question is a three-part series about the cluster of cells at the crossroads of science, ethics and the law. Read the introduction. Between divorce cases and I.V.F. disputes, the frozen embryos vials like these will

In September 2023, the second xenotransplantation of a genetically-modified pig heart into a living human patient was performed by surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Due to the risks of xenotransplantation, researchers have become increasingly interested in testing the procedure in brain-dead subjects. Visual: University of Maryland School of Medicine

The Allure and Dangers of Experimenting With Brain-Dead Bodies

For scientists who perform medical research on the recently deceased, there are few regulatory or ethical guardrails. This article, written by Jyoti Madhusoodanan, is based on her 2023 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship research on human experiments and greater openness behind clinical trials. It appeared in

Many of the homes on the island of Gardi Sugdub, in Panama’s Guna Yala province, sit right at the edge of the sea. MICHAEL ADAMS

How an Indigenous community in Panama is escaping rising seas

The Indigenous Guna people of Gardi Sugdub have plans to move to Panama’s mainland this year Many of the homes on the island of Gardi Sugdub, in Panama’s Guna Yala province, sit right at the edge of the sea. MICHAEL ADAMS In pictures from high