From White Supremacism To Black Liberation: Harry S. Truman, Lynching and Racial Justice

Harry Truman and health care reform: the debate started here.

The signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March 2010 has not quelled the bitter debate over the issue of health care reform. National health insurance (NHI) plans have been considered by many presidential administrations since the beginning of the 20th century. Harry Truman (Fig 1) was the first US president to propose a system of NHI, however, when he addressed Congress ...

A tribute to Justice Harry A. Blackmun.

Healthy Justice: A Liberation Approach to Justice in Health Care

Without social justice, we cannot promote population health nor a universal public health system necessary to support it. In the words of Norman Daniels “social justice is good for our health.”1 Catholic social teaching has important insights to contribute to the social justice debate in health and public health care. Drawing upon this tradition, I will explore the concepts of justice and the c...

Justice, Caring, and Animal Liberation

Carol Gilligan bas described justice and caring as two distinct moral frameworks or orientations to ethical concerns. (Gilligan 1982) The justice framework is characterized by abstraction, the application of general rules ofconduct, an emphasis on restraining aggression, and a concern for consistency and the fair resolution of conflicting claims and interests. The caring framework, on the other...

Black Capitalism : the Path to Black Liberation ?

Back in 1960 the demand at Greensboro, North Carolina, was for a twenty cent harrburger at a downtown white-owned lunch counter. Since then, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches . for jobs, income and decent housing, and finally urban riots have become vehicles for black expression against racism and for a fair share of American affluence. The response of the white corporate sector to such anguished...