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 Tuesday, March 16, 2021 From Texas to Mississippi, States Dismantle Covid-19 Safety Protocols at Our Peril The gusto of Reopening 2.0 already has epidemiologists bracing for a fourth gale of coronavirus. Instead of gritting teeth for another couple of months before a solid majority of adults are vaccinated, governors and mayors are relaxing or ending restrictions on businesses and public gatherings from... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 18, 2021 America's Response to Covid-19 Should Long Perforate Our Pomposity About Being the Greatest Nation on Earth A century since the 1918 flu claimed an estimated 675,000 lives in the United States, COVID-19 is about to claim its 500,000 th life in the nation. According to February 12 projections from the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), we’re on track for 614,000... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 26, 2021 The Environmental Justice Movement Takes Center Stage in the Biden Administration The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is growling like a tiger and prowling like a panther in the halls of power, helping shape President Biden’s cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the... Read more |
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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 |