“Work What You Got”: Political Participation And HIV-Positive Black Women’s Work To Restore Themselves And Their Communities

Black women’s rates of HIV/AIDS infection have skyrocketed in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups over the past thirty years. Despite these rates, HIV-positive Black women’s perspectives are rarely sought regarding best practices to eradicate and interrupt HIV/AIDS among African American women, even though historically Black women have often proved phenomenal agents of social change. HIV-positive Black women’s activism has been understudied and input from the community in crisis has rarely been deemed as valuable to public health officials in HIV/AIDS prevention and interventions. Through the narratives of thirty HIV-positive Floridian Black women, I present HIV-positive Black women’s political participation around these emerging themes: 1) face-to-face activism 2) activist mothering, and 2) publically coming out as women living with HIV/AIDS

Unsubstantiated bias toward foster care versus group home placements for wards of the state.

High number of placements for children in U.S. DHHS custody has led to class action lawsuits around the country. The current study proposes that social stigmatization effects in the form of family ideology drive foster home favorability over group home placements. Fifty-four students completed an Implicit Association Test, Go/No-Go Association Task, and self-report assessing associations of foster home and group home stimuli to either good or bad stimuli using three dependent measures: sensitivity (d'), hit RTs, and false alarms. Results revealed participants were more sensitive, faster, and had fewer erroneous responses when foster was paired with good or when group was paired with bad. Results supported hypothesis of a positive bias towards foster homes and a negative group home bias

JLFC 001D John L LeFlore 10-9-1972

Acc #: 270; JLFC 001D In this recording, John L. LeFlore is interviewed by Melton McLaurin to discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the history of Mobile, Alabama. The interview begins with Mr. LeFlore discussing his activities with the Mobile branch of the NAACP in the 1940s, including the fight to create equal work training opportunities during wartime, and racial equality in voter registration

JLFC 001C John L. LeFlore 12-15-1970

Acc #: 270; JLFC 001C In this recording, John L. LeFlore is interviewed by Margaret Lavorne and Melton McLaurin to discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the history of Mobile, Alabama. The interview begins with Mr. LeFlore observing that African Americans could not take city and county civil service examinations in Mobile County, unconstitutionally limiting their employment options. He relates the work that he and other activists undertook to establish more equitable hiring practices and access to training opportunities, particularly in Mobile. Mr. LeFlore also discusses his work with the Mobile Housing Board, and describes what he views as the benefits of urban renewal to the Black community as well as some negative impacts, and the challenges of attempting to improve Black people’s access to better housing in the face of white flight. He offers some observations on the food stamp program, and some ruminations on the effects of the gubernatorial administration of George Wallace in Alabama

Review of community pharmacy services: what is being performed, and where are the opportunities for improvement?

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to assess pharmacist and pharmacy services being provided and identify opportunities to improve patient satisfaction. METHODS: Studies published between January 2006 and July 2016 examining patient satisfaction with pharmacy and pharmacist services, which were written in English, were identified in PubMed. Studies were excluded if they only looked at pharmacy student-provided services. KEY FINDINGS: A total of 50 studies were ultimately included in the review. Of these studies, 28 examined services traditionally provided by community pharmacists such as dispensing and counseling, while 16 examined a new in-person service being offered by a pharmacy, and the remaining six involved a new technology-assisted service. While study findings were generally positive for patient satisfaction of pharmacy services, several opportunities were identified for pharmacies to improve. CONCLUSION: Overall, patient satisfaction is high across pharmacy services; however, this satisfaction is related to prior patient exposure to services and their level of expectation. Pharmacists have multiple opportunities to improve the services they provide, and there are additional services pharmacists may consider offering to expand their role within the health care system

JLFC 001A John L LeFlore 7-3-1970

Acc #: 270; JLFC 001A In this recording, John L. LeFlore is interviewed by Margaret Lavorne and Melton McLaurin to discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the history of Mobile, Alabama. The interview begins with Mr. LeFlore’s reflections on the racism and racial violence that he grew up with in the US South, motivating him to co-found the Mobile branch of the NAACP in 1925. He also offers some thoughts on the importance of allyship to the success of the Movement, and the changes he has observed—and worked for—over the years

JLFC 001B John L LeFlore 8-7-1970

Acc #: 270; JLFC 001B In this recording, John L. LeFlore is interviewed by Margaret Lavorne and Melton McLaurin to discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the history of Mobile, Alabama. The interview begins with Mr. LeFlore discussing the legal strategies in the Ed Tate case, and more generally the racism that Black railroad workers faced in terms of pay, promotions, and working conditions. Mr. LeFlore also recounts the story of the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipping Company (ADDSCO) riot, and describes the ways that he and others fought to challenge racist hiring policies at the docks and discriminatory work training programs in Mobile. Mr. LeFlore also shares some thoughts on his journalistic experiences documenting lynchings in the U.S. South

JLFC 002 John LeFlore & Wiley Bolden 8-7-1970

Acc #: 270; JLFC 002 In this recording, John L. LeFlore and Wiley Bolden are interviewed by Melton McLaurin to discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the history of Mobile, Alabama. The interview begins with a focus on NAACP voting rights efforts in Mobile in 1944, and the fight against the Boswell Amendment. They also offer comparisons and contrasts in terms of voter registration for Black Alabamians in the 1940s, under the Folsom administration, versus the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. LeFlore also discusses the role of Joseph Langan, who served both as a state senator and as a longtime mayor of Mobile, in shaping the landscape for Black voting rights in Mobile. He also discusses the impact that the closing of Brookley Field had on Mobile and especially the Black community, and some of the dispossessing impacts of urban renewal and the construction of highway I-10