The University of Michigan’s chap-
ter of the Spill the Honey Foundation,
an organization committed to telling
the history of Black and Jewish civil
rights alliances, screened the new film
“Shared Legacies” Thursday evening.
The documentary discusses the part-
nership between the Black and Jewish
communities during the Civil Rights
Movement. About 70 students and
professors attended the screening.
The film highlighted how Jewish
leaders supported Martin Luther King
and the Black community’s efforts to
combat segregation and racism in the
1960s. The film included prominent
leaders such as members of the King
family, Rabbi Alvin Sugarman and the
late U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).
After the screening, a panel dis-
cussed takeaways from the film.
Shari Rogers, director and produc-
er of “Shared Legacies” and founder of
Spill the Honey, said she was inspired
to create the film to show how the
Jewish community supported the
Black community during the Civil
Rights Movement.
Rogers said she understands how
history can be difficult to talk about,
but she thinks people should still
share their experiences in order to
promote further conversations in the
future.
“When souls have been destroyed,
no one wants to talk about it. It’s so
painful,” Rogers said. “We have a
shared responsibility to slowly come
to terms with the importance of mem-
ory and talking about what we went
through.”
Panelist and Rackham student
Andre Ray said the film calls attention
to the shared histories of the Black and
Jewish communities while also pro-
viding an opportunity for connection
in the present.
“(It’s) an opportunity to build a
bridge with another community,” Ray
said. “These communities have such a
rich history and to witness it together,
in the same room, is such a powerful
point to move forward from on a cam-
pus like this.”
The third panelist, Business
senior Blake Weissman, is the
national youth president for the Spill
the Honey Foundation. Weissman
said Spill the Honey’s main motiva-
tion for screening the film was edu-
cating people about the connection
between the Black and Jewish com-
munities.
Weissman said they chose to screen
the documentary at college campuses
and schools because they believe it is
especially important for youth popula-
tions to know this history.
“We’re bringing this to college cam-
puses, we’re bringing it to high schools,
we’re bringing it to middle schools,”
Weissman said. “It’s not like it should
be (taught). It needs to be taught. And
that’s what we’re doing.”
In a group discussion after the
panel, students shared their reactions
to the film.
LSA sophomore Samuel Hausman-
Weiss said the film screening was a
great way to spark discussion about
topics generally not spoken about. He
said college students need to learn
about new perspectives and the film
screening promoted learning about
the intersection between Black and
Jewish histories.
“This is where it starts. It starts
with a conversation,” Hausman-Weiss
said. “I think that this is the best first
step there has been in a while.”
Business junior Henrik Angelstig
attended the event and said he found
the film eye-opening. Despite being
familiar with Black and Jewish history
prior to the viewing, Angelstig said he
had never actually learned about how
the two groups worked together dur-
ing the Civil Rights Movement.
“This has definitely been one of
the most profound things I’ve ever
watched,” Angelstig said. “Of course
we have read about Black history and
Jewish history in school, but I’ve never
actually made a connection between
the two. I’m just amazed at how blind
I have been to that fact.”
Daily Staff Reporter Navya Gupta can
be reached at itznavya@umich.edu.
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A recent University of Michigan
study on concussions among college
athletes found the timeline for concus-
sion recovery can take up to 28 days, as
opposed to the previously suggested 14
days. With a $42.65 million grant, the
concussion study is believed to be the
largest of its kind in history.
The grant was split between $25
million from the U.S. Army Medical
Research and Development Command,
$10 million from the National Collegiate
Athletic Association and $7.65 from the
U.S. Defense Health Agency.
The study was conducted by Steve
Broglio, head director of the U-M
concussion center and member of the
CARE Consortium — the NCAA-U.S.
Department of Defense’s Concussion
Assessment, Research and Educa-
tion leadership team. Broglio and his
colleagues began the study in 2014
at 30 sites across the country, includ-
ing four military academies. They
enrolled all eligible varsity athletes
and service academy cadets.
A total of 1,751 concussion cases
were included in the study, with
results showing 85% of people took
over one month to be cleared for
unrestricted participation in sports
after a concussion.
“We need to reframe the normal
recovery time because there’s vari-
ability in how people recover from all
injuries,” Broglio said.
LSA freshman Tyler McLaurin, a
linebacker on the U-M football team,
said many coaches and athletic train-
ers have talked to the team about the
findings of the study given the high
number of concussions in football.
McLaurin said he believes extending
recovery time is beneficial in the long
run even if it keeps players off of the
field temporarily.
“I think that it hurts a person at the
moment, but it is about more than just
football,” McLaurin said. “Concus-
sions are long term and can affect a
person in more ways than just the
physical symptoms.”
A main goal of the study was to nor-
malize longer recovery rates, according
to Broglio. Broglio said if sports teams
follow the current medical literature,
anyone who has 14 or more days of
recovery time is “bucketed into the
abnormal recovery group, even though
they’re a 51st-percentile person.”
The “abnormal” label given to ath-
letes can be mentally demanding, Bro-
glio said, and can often cause them to
put their athletic career before their
physical health. Broglio said he has
heard of many injuries ignored or not
reported until after an event.
“A concussion is unique in that if
an athlete wants to hide it, it can be
hidden,” Broglio said. “From a psy-
chological standpoint, we’re trying to
reduce inadvertent pressure on team-
mates, coaches and parents to get
somebody back to play, by reframing
this from a more holistic manner.”
McLaurin also said he believes
concussed student-athletes should
have post-concussion recovery time
in order to catch up on academic work.
“I feel as though it is much hard-
er to catch up after a concussion,”
McLaurin said. “I have seen people
force themselves to grind for days at a
time in order to try to learn the infor-
mation during their concussion while
everything that is going on around
them in class.”
The paper also found minimal
differences between how men and
women recover. In addition, the study
analyzed recovery time between
concussions from contact versus
non-contact sports. Overall, the study
found there were not significant dif-
ferences in recovery time in different
sports, according to Broglio.
“Those differences are really a
day or two away, which in the grand
scheme of things doesn’t really mean
much,” Broglio said. “This allows cli-
nicians to have a unified approach to
concussion management. They don’t
need to make special circumstances
for the football athlete versus the
cross country runner, etc.”
In addition, individuals with their
first, second and third injuries all
recovered at approximately the same
rate. It wasn’t until the fourth injury
that researchers started seeing longer
recovery periods. Broglio emphasized
that the “longer” recovery period is
only a day or two different than the
normal one found in the study.
“There’s certainly not this idea of
‘three concussions and you’re done
with your career,’” Broglio said.
“Those decisions are made on an
individual basis, based on severity, the
goals of the athletes and other per-
sonal factors.”
LSA freshman Hunter Thomson, a
U-M varsity golfer, believes non-con-
tact-sport athletes should also take con-
cussions seriously. Though Thompson
has never gotten a concussion himself,
he hopes to pass the findings of the
study along to friends and teammates.
“This information is very impor-
tant, and by the sounds of it, it could
help possibly elongate the careers of
athletes,” Thompson said.
Broglio plans to use his grant for a
future study that will consist of two
phases. The first five years of the
study will involve online evaluations,
imaging studies, bloodwork, full neu-
ropsychology evaluations, clinical
exams and DNA capture of current
subjects. The second phase will fur-
ther explore how concussions affect
aspects of the subjects’ future lives.
“The main goal is to continue track-
ing the individuals through middle age
and older adulthood to understand
who ends up with poor outcomes and
who doesn’t, and why,” Broglio said.
“This will all help us get a handle on
the long-term effects of injury.”
McLaurin said many athletes are
passionate about following the find-
ings of the study in order to put their
health first.
“This is more than a game,”
McLaurin said. “Football and all
sports are just for a small amount of
time. Sports end for various reasons,
such as injuries or old age, so it is nec-
essary to be ready for backup plans.
Concussions ruin the idea of backup
plans because it dents the mental
health and capability of a person.”
Daily Staff Reporter Ashna Mehra
can be reached at ashmehra@umich.edu.
U-M study shows timeline for concussion
recovery is nearly a month long, double the
currently suggested length
Recovery rates for concussions are lengthened, athletes talk putting health first
ASHNA MEHRA
Daily Staff Reporter
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