Calvin Schermerhorn

Apr 25, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Calvin Schermerhorn

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Apr 25, 2024 | theconversation.com | Calvin Schermerhorn

Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy. But abortion was illegal in Arizona. Boido, the city’s sole female physician, asked Juhl for US$100 – about $2,000 today – to perform the abortion. Juhl said she could pay $27 – her entire savings – but Boido explained the legal risks, including the prison time she could face, and insisted on full payment.

Apr 25, 2024 | thefacts.com | Calvin Schermerhorn

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Aug 27, 2023 | miamiherald.com | Calvin Schermerhorn

At a time when the Republican Party is struggling to gain the support of minority voters, their first debate featured a chorus of dog whistles on issues of race. In response to a question about rising urban crime rates, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy whistled the loudest. He would put more cops on the streets who did not have to “look over their shoulder for getting sued,” a jab at Black Lives Matter and the broader push for police accountability.

Aug 24, 2023 | newspronto.com | Calvin Schermerhorn

Buyenlarge/Getty ImagesIf there was anyone who knew the rewards of slavery, it was George Washington. Over a period of about 50 years, the nation’s first president enslaved about 577 Black Americans, starting when he was 11 years old. One of them was a Black man named Morris who was skilled in carpentry and became an overseer of other enslaved men and women working on a farm at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.