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A Thank You and a Message of Hope

Portside
Where do we go in the coming year? We hope to begin to turn vision into reality. To not only turn the page, but to begin a new chapter.

food

Tea

Harvard T. H. Chan Newsletter Harvard T. H. Chan Newsletter
Observational research has found that tea consumption of 2-3 cups daily is associated with a reduced risk of premature death, heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes; studies suggest potential benefits are due to its high polyphenol content.

poetry

Little Black Boy

Lois Fried
Writing from personal experience, Lois Fried traces the divide from days of Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter.

poetry

Luchtfietser [Daydreamer]

Robert Perry Coronagedicht
One year after people began to quarantine, Robert Perry’s poetry captures the slow realization as one day passes into the next how daydreaming eases the loneliness.

books

G&Ts on the Veranda: An Homage to Franz Boas and a Better Anthropology

Francis Gooding London Review of Books
Boas was an outlier in a field that tolerated if not justified white racial superiority over the world’s “lesser” breeds, He and his intellectual successors— largely women-did what scholars and journalists need to do: listen, ask questions, observe.
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