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Impacts of the Increases of COVID-19 Cases and A Conversation on Police Reform in the Wake of the Recent Death of George Floyd
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about COVID-19 in Texas and police reform around the country. Cynthia N. Colbert, MSW is President and Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston in Texas. As COVID-19 cases continue to spike across the country, Cynthia Colbert talks about what the situation is currently like in East Texas and what Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston is doing to assist those who have been impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic in her area. Thomas Abt, Esq. is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice in Washington D.C., as well as the author of…
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COVID-19 in the Bronx and Youth Response to George Floyd
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about health and housing in the Bronx, and how the protests after George Floyd’s death has affected youth in New York. Professor Diana Hernandez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Socio-medical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She – a sociologist by training – researches and examines the intersections between the built environment (housing and neighborhoods), and poverty and health. Dr. Hernandez shares with us how and why the COVID-19 outbreak here in New York has had a particularly devastating impact on poor communities of color like the South Bronx where she grew up. Eddie Silverio…