Browsing: Racism

A 43-year-old disabled widow, burdened by medical debt from her husband’s and her own cancer, walks two hours in the early morning darkness to get free treatment at a health fair in Columbus, Ohio, a treatment for conditions not covered by her Medicaid. At the same time, Medicaid, and the SNAP food benefits that have also sustained this widow, are being severely cut by this administration.

     In the moments before New York City subway entertainer Jordan Neely was killed on an F train in lower Manhattan in the middle of the day, a witness said he had been yelling, asking for food and saying that he didn’t care if he went to jail. A 24-year-old man from Queens, whose identity has not yet been verified, came up from behind him and put him in a chokehold for several minutes until Neely died.