“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressing the Medical Committee for Human Rights, 1966

Related:

“How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Timeline of Policies and Events,” KFF

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Weekend Music: “Let the Healing Begin,” written by EG Kight and Tom Horner, recorded by EG Kight. 2000.

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Weekend Music: “That’s All It Took,” written by Carlos Grier, Darrell Edwards, and George Jones, recorded by Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, 2024. That’s Mr. Campbell on pedal steel. The tune was originally recorded by George Jones & Gene Pitney in 1965.

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams website

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Sunday Morning Gospel Music: “Glory Road” (a Gospel take on 1971’s “Country Roads,” written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver) recorded by The East St. Louis Gospelettes, 1977. Vocalists Verdener Robinson and Frances Moore supply additional lyrics and testimony.

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Weekend Music: “When I Stop Loving You,” written by Larry Campbell and William Bell, recorded by Larry Campbell and  Teresa Williams, 2015.  There’s also a nice live version.

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams website

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Weekend Music: “It Takes a Lotta Good Love,” written by Alvertis Isbell and Booker T. Jones, recorded by Judy Clay, 1967.

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Weekend Music: “Symphony Of Destruction,” written by Dave Mustaine, recorded by Finland’s Steve ‘n’ Seagulls, 2016. Originally recorded by Megadeath, 1992.

Steve’n’Seagulls website

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Saturday Morning Cartoon: “Superman: Destruction Inc.,” a 1942 WWII theatrical cartoon by Famous Studios, released in Technicolor by Paramount Pictures. Based on the characters created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel; story by Jay Morton. Directed by Izzy Sparber with music by Sammy Timberg. Voice actors: Joan Alexander (Lois Lane), Jackson Beck (narrator. thug), Bud Collyer (Superman/Clark Kent), and Jack Mercer (radio newscaster, Louis the bus driver). The actors had worked together on The Adventures of Superman radio show since 1940.  This is the thirteenth installment of a 17-film series, now in the public domain, remastered by Toonsie.

Note: some sources say Julian Noa voiced the parts of narrator and thug.

More:

“The Real Heroes of Superman, Part 3,” Nina Kincaid, Flixens

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Evan Puschak explores how Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga led a diplomatic mission to Europe from 1613 to 1620, and how we know about.

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Sadly, Renee Good is not the first victim of the ill-trained masked thugs terrorizing America’s streets under color of law. Many Americans are demanding that she be the last.

More:

“Nationwide anti-ICE protests call for accountability after Renee Good’s death,” Chandelis Duster and Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR News 

“Anti-ICE Protests Spread Across the U.S. After Fatal Shooting of Minneapolis Woman,” Rebecca Schneid, Time

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