Attorney McKenna Raney-Gray will lead the brand-new LGBTQ Justice Project, a free legal clinic at the ACLU of Mississippi that will offer services to LGBTQ-identifying people on issues including family law, civil rights and employment discrimination. Raney-Gray shared with Reckon what she’s currently reading, watching and listening to on LGBTQ issues and culture. [...]
The only suburb built specifically for Black residents in Huntsville, Ala. has a rich history that was in danger of vanishing – until a coalition of grassroots organizations and local leaders worked to preserve it. “Edmonton Heights was a prominent African-American neighborhood because there were few other places in [...]
Kelley O’Hara, 32, is heading into her third Olympic Games as a seasoned star of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she played every minute of every game, and USA took home the gold. After an upset at the 2016 Games, the U.S. [...]
The only hospital in rural Pickens County, Ala., closed its doors for good just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. It was March 2020. The west Alabama county sits along the Mississippi state line, its landscape dotted with small towns. When the hospital closed in the county seat of Carrollton (pop. 1,000), Pickens County [...]
Reckon talked with young doctors who live and work in communities across the South. We asked them what they think are the biggest problems facing rural healthcare in the South, and how they’d fix those problems if they had unlimited resources. Read on for their real-world solutions. Check out our [...]
Next month, millions of American families will begin receiving monthly direct cash payments, and unprecedented foray into the idea of a universal basic income. A new expanded child tax credit, part of the American Rescue Plan that Congress passed in March, will give low- and middle-income families monthly payouts of $300 per child under age 6 [...]
Recently, COVID vaccines were approved for children ages 12 and up. Vaccines for younger children are under evaluation in clinical trials. But even for infectious disease experts, the amount of information available to parents about COVID vaccines can be overwhelming. Dr. Ellen Eaton is assistant professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases at [...]
How should we fix rural healthcare? Reckon went to the front lines of the rural health crisis in the South, talking with young doctors who live and work in communities across the region. We asked them what they think are the biggest problems facing rural healthcare in the South, and how [...]
This month, Reckon talked with young doctors who live and work in communities across the South. We asked them what they think are the biggest problems facing rural healthcare in the South, and how they’d fix those problems if they had unlimited resources. Read on for their real-world solutions. Check out [...]
The rural healthcare crisis is not new, but it is particularly pronounced in the South. Rural areas are less likely to have enough primary care physicians. Rural residents also tend to be poorer, according to the National Rural Health Association. More than half the nation’s rural hospital closures since 2010 were in the South. Many of those are clustered [...]
