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Who Can Afford a Baby? An Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class Oppression in Fertility Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes infertility as an inability to achieve a viable pregnancy within one year of regular and...
Ejura Yetunde Salihu
Jan 31, 20234 min read
1964: The Year in Smoking—Race, Cigarettes, and Capitalism
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Sarah Brady Siff, a visiting assistant professor at the Moritz College of Law...
Sarah Brady Siff
Oct 21, 20215 min read
Remembering Civil Rights Lawyer Samuel Carter McMorris and his Fight Against Unjust Drug Laws
Editor’s Note: Today’s post in honor of Black History Month comes from contributing editor Sarah Brady Siff, a visiting assistant...
Sarah Brady Siff
Feb 24, 20216 min read
Desegregating the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy
Editor’s Note: In honor of Black History Month, today’s post about the desegregation of the University of North Carolina School of...
Christian Brown
Feb 22, 20218 min read
Cocaine in 1980s America: Fine for the Wealthy & Well-Educated; Bad for the Poor
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Brooks Hudson, a PhD student in history at Southern Illinois University. New...
Brooks Hudson
Feb 18, 20215 min read
The Complicated Legacy of James E. Brown (c. 1802–1853), Liberian Colonial Apothecary
Editor’s Note: From the Collections is a new feature at Points that highlights articles, artifacts, images, and other items of interest...
Greg Bond
Feb 12, 20218 min read
Drugstores and the Color Line: Remembering Pharmacies as Sites of the Civil Rights Movement
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of Points posts during February in honor of Black History Month. Today’s article comes from...
Greg Bond
Feb 1, 20217 min read
Blaming Black Vice
Editor’s Note: A week and a half ago, we noted that 40,000 Americans had died from COVID-19. Now that number is over 70,000. It’s a...
David A. Guba Jr.
May 5, 20207 min read
African American Agency and (Anti-)Prohibition
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Brendan Payne, a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at Baylor University finishing his...
Brendan Payne
May 4, 20164 min read
Points Roundtable, “Becoming a Marihuana User”: Cookie Woolner
Editor’s Note: This week, we welcome Cookie Woolner to the roundtable on Howard Becker’s Becoming a Marihuana User. Woolner recently...
Cookie Woolner
Sep 22, 20155 min read
The Use of Marijuana in the Rastafari Religion
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Andrea Jones, a journalist interested in issues of alcohol and drug addiction in youth....
Andrea Jones
Jun 11, 20154 min read
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