Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Z. Jackson is a 2018 winner from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, a 10-time winner from the National Association of Black Journalists and a Pulitzer Prize finalist and co-author of Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock (2015). He can be reached at dzjphoto@gmail.com
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Views Friday, November 13, 2020 Fighting the Pandemic Can’t Wait for Inauguration Day Science is returning after serving a four-year sentence as a political prisoner. Science to fight COVID-19 is returning to the White House after ten months of President Trump’s self-admitted campaign to downplay the lethality of a virus that in a few days will have killed a quarter-million... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 13, 2020 As the Virus Rampages Through Washington, Essential Workers Nationwide Are Paying the Price On October 6, the Roll Call news service reported that 123 employees and contractors who maintain, clean, protect, and restore the offices, buildings, and grounds of Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court have now tested positive for the coronavirus. This news came days after The New York Times... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 26, 2020 Why Environmental Justice Needs to Be on the Docket in the Presidential Debates Earlier this week, when Fox News announced the lineup of topics for the upcoming presidential debate, climate change and environmental justice were nowhere to be seen. Among the many lamentable things about that is that moderator Chris Wallace, who is scheduled for this Tuesday’s debate, has shown... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Election Day Is Nearing, But There's No End in Sight to Trump's Attacks on Science President Trump appears to be on a tear to play down, put down, and take down science in the last weeks of his reelection campaign. After being caught on tape saying he purposely played down the true threat of COVID-19, he and his administration have put on encore performances with attacks on... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 10, 2020 The Evidence is Clear: The US Public Wants Science-Based Policies for COVID-19 You would think that after 190,000 COVID-19 deaths, the Trump administration might finally develop a national strategy to control spread of the coronavirus. No. Instead, it foists on us a new member of the coronavirus task force with no expertise in infectious disease or epidemiology. Scott Atlas,... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 04, 2020 The Boy Scouts Can Do Better Than Teaming up With Trump’s EPA In more sane times, it would be natural for the Boy Scouts of America to share its do-gooder image with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The two institutions recently announced a special award for scouts that commemorates the EPA’s 50th anniversary. The award is given after a scout earns... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 18, 2020 The Term ‘Minority’ Has Never Made Sense. Let's Cancel It. Nearly three decades ago, I wrote the following sentence in a Boston Globe column: “Let us bury the term ‘minority.’” Silly me, thinking in 1991 that I could eliminate this amorphous, diminutive label for people of color with a few taps on a keyboard. I excised it from my own writing, as government... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 22, 2020 When COVID-19 Science Comes Home to Roost In my childhood, our nation’s war with itself was seared into me by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. For succeeding generations, 9/11, and the massacres at Columbine, Sandy Hook Elementary, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 12, 2020 A Second Wave of COVID-19 Looms Large—and It’s Not Because of Protests All over America, protesters have taken to the streets to protest the police murders of African Americans George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville and the white vigilante lynching of African American Ahmed Aubrey in Brunswick, Georgia. Part of the news coverage has dwelled on... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 10, 2020 The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds With unemployment approaching Great Depression levels, the nation is waving the white flag on controlling the coronavirus. It appears not to shock the senses at the White House or at many governors’ mansions around the country that the 76,000 deaths from COVID-19 in three months could fill the... Read more |