medical Money, politics and patient safety: Abbott donors on Texas Medical Board Christin Hakim, May 8, 2022 AUSTIN (KXAN) — Gov. Greg Abbott tapped top-dollar donors to sit on the Texas Medical Board. He also appointed members — tasked with representing the consumer — who come from telecom, business, real estate and energy sectors, with no obvious patient advocacy or medical experience, a KXAN investigation revealed. The… Continue Reading
sport U.S. sports saw China as a gold mine. Will politics drive them away? Christin Hakim, February 4, 2022 The powerful commissioner stepped to a lectern. Chatter died down, and cameras zeroed in. Unrelenting controversy had followed him here to Atlanta. It peppered him throughout a tense news conference until, several questions in, softballs granted reprieves. “Where does China rank when it comes to international expansion?” a reporter asked…. Continue Reading
Entertainment Jacqueline Avant helped unite Black politics, entertainment Christin Hakim, December 6, 2021 A few days after Thanksgiving, venerable Watts community activist “Sweet” Alice Harris got a phone call. The woman on the other end of the line lived in the tony Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills and had seen Harris on TV, giving away turkeys for the holiday and talking about… Continue Reading
Automotive Onstage, ‘Designing Women’ Sheds the Shoulder Pads, Not Its Politics Christin Hakim, October 1, 2021 The show wasn’t entirely progressive. Its sole character of color, Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor), had a subordinate role in the firm, and queer characters were rare. But it gave its characters divergent attitudes, insisting that the experience of women wasn’t uniform. In a logline, the characters might have come across… Continue Reading