The North Carolina Board of Education is discussing how to teach U.S. and North Carolina history in public schools and some Republican members of the Board are saying proposed changes are “anti American” and wrongly teaching students that the U.S. is “racist” and “anti capitalist.” Lorda mercy. Why don’t we…

The draft report of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on November 23, 2020 suggested the use of Race in prioritizing the allocation of limiting COVID19 vaccination as a means of promoting justice and reducing health inequities. This move was controversial and the final ACIP recommendation released on…

The January 6, 2021 insurrection designed to disrupt Congress from fulfilling its Constitutionally proscribed powers that was incited by President Trump, and enabled by numerous persons, some known and others not is a departure from the rule of law and norms that must be answered forcefully. Next steps: The President…

January 6, 2021-This has always been us The most important task of leadership is to correctly define reality; to tell the truth. The insurrection and mob overrun of the U.S. Capitol that disrupted the counting of the Electoral College votes that officially marked him as the loser, was incited by…

The pace at which Confederate monuments have been removed in the past two weeks suggests a tipping point. Several folks have asked me “if we remove Confederate monuments, where does it stop? Do we remove the Washington monument too?” …

Telling the Truth About Race This is cross posted on my blog https://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/telling-the-truth-about-race/ Don Taylor Don Taylor It has taken me half a Century of life to acknowledge an idea that is foundational to the United States that has been hiding in plain sight all along — there is a…

How to make the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot more effective https://donaldhtaylorjr.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/rounding-out-the-moon-shot/

January 1, 2016 will be a huge day of changes for Medicare end of life policy. As noted earlier, Medicare will begin paying for advanced care planning and will begin a concurrent hospice care demonstration on New Year’s Day. …