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In Her Own Words... Joan Mulholland
SIXTY YEARS AGO, 19-YEAR-OLD JOAN MULHOLLAND WAS ARRESTED AND JAILED AT PARCHMAN FARM IN MISSISSIPPI AS A CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTER. THE...
Streets of (Gun)Fire
RECKONING WITH INCREASED VIOLENCE & HARD SOLUTIONS TO ITS END By Lee Ross, Acumen Editor Authorities in several major U.S. cities have...
#AcumenEugenicallySpeaking
Charting & Challenging Eugenics 2021 Dr. Shantella Sherman The Acumen Group A decade ago, I covered a public hearing of the Eugenics Task...
Measuring Up
AMERICA'S FASCINATION WITH EUGENIC FITNESS & CREATING A NATIONAL "NORMAL" BY DR. SHANTELLA SHERMAN From 1932 until 1944, researchers from...
Survival of the Fittest? Poor Fecundity Odds on the Rise
BY OLIVIA ROSS, Acumen Staff Writer If evolutionary theory and eugenics promise are to be believed, the sanctity of the world relies on...
Remembering Tulsa, 1921: Interview with Olivia Hooker
By Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman Acumen Publisher Before the racist rampage of Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, its Black residents had grown...
Hidden in Plain View: Giving Voice to Boy Victims of Female Predators
“We get very uncomfortable with the idea of female offenders in general, never mind sexual offenders as they are going against a...