Reading Octavia Butler in the Age of the Polycrisis

Reading Octavia Butler in the Age of the Polycrisis

Editorial credit: hamdi bendali / Shutterstock.com By Julia Tong | February 15, 2024 | Ethnic Media Services It is 2024, and America has collapsed. A dysfunctional, authoritarian government is unable to reign in rampant unemployment and poverty, skyrocketing drug abuse, and crime. The earth’s temperature continues to climb, while desperate people scramble for food, water, […]

What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?

What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?

By Gwynne Hogan Rachel Holliday Smith | February 13, 2024 The January brawl between NYPD officers and migrants in Times Square that went viral has sparked a national firestorm over long-standing sanctuary city policies that restrict cooperation between federal authorities and local law enforcement. Republicans seized on the attack to argue that sanctuary laws should be changed. […]

Completing an Unprecedented 10 Million Immigration Cases in Fiscal Year 2023, USCIS Reduced Its Backlog for the First Time in Over a Decade

Completing an Unprecedented 10 Million Immigration Cases in Fiscal Year 2023, USCIS Reduced Its Backlog for the First Time in Over a Decade

WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. The USCIS workforce has worked tirelessly over the past year to uphold America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility by reducing backlogs, improving customer experience, addressing […]

Mark Cuban Challenges CEOs to Find a Top-Performing Company without Diversity Programs: ‘Why Do You Think They Have Done So Well?’

Mark Cuban Challenges CEOs to Find a Top-Performing Company without Diversity Programs: ‘Why Do You Think They Have Done So Well?’

Editorial credit: Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com By Emma Burleigh and Ruth Umoh | MSN, originally featured on Fortune.com Mark Cuban doubled down on his defense of DEI as a business strategy earlier this week and took some of his fellow billionaires to task on their immigration stances. In a weekend post on X, its owner […]

Opinion: Before Nassau Throws a Party, We Must Serve Our Most Vulnerable

Opinion: Before Nassau Throws a Party, We Must Serve Our Most Vulnerable

By Siela A. Bynoe The practitioners who deliver physical, speech, and occupational therapy services to babies and toddlers under age 3 with disabilities and developmental delays have not gotten a raise from Nassau County in nearly three decades. As homelessness continues to grow, Nassau has slashed its funding to the Department of Social Services (DSS) […]

California introduces first-in-nation slavery reparations package

California introduces first-in-nation slavery reparations package

Editorial credit: Bob Korn / Shutterstock.com By Lara Korte | MSN SACRAMENTO, California — California state lawmakers introduced a slate of reparations bills on Wednesday, including a proposal to restore property taken by “race-based” cases of eminent domain and a potentially unconstitutional measure to provide state funding for “specific groups.” The package marks a first-in-the-nation […]

Protecting Workers: DCWP Settles with Six Major Companies Over Workplace Violations

Protecting Workers: DCWP Settles with Six Major Companies Over Workplace Violations

Editorial credit: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today announced nearly $3 million in relief secured for workers from six major businesses to resolve violations of the City’s workplace laws: White Castle, Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza, Amazon, Farm Country grocery store, and Public Preparatory […]

Squad Member Jamaal Bowman on Slave Reparations – Says He Wants ALL 42 MILLION Black Americans to Get $333,000 and Reveals ‘Creative Ways’ to Pay Them

Squad Member Jamaal Bowman on Slave Reparations – Says He Wants ALL 42 MILLION Black Americans to Get $333,000 and Reveals ‘Creative Ways’ to Pay Them

Editorial credit: Paul Froggatt / Shutterstock.com By Bethan Sexton | January 18, 2024 | MSN Lawmaker tabled bill H.R. 414 in 2023 claiming the US has a ‘moral and legal obligation’ to make restitution to the descendants of slaves Bowman believes $14 T should be distributed to black people who make up 12 percent of […]

Weathering a Nationwide Tripledemic

Weathering a Nationwide Tripledemic

By Selen Ozturk | January 9, 2024 | Ethnic Media Services A surging “tripledemic” of COVID-19, flu and RSV threatens to overburden an already burdened U.S. healthcare system. At a Friday, January 5 briefing co-hosted by Ethnic Media Services and Blue Shield of California Foundation, medical experts discussed tripledemic predictions; the newest JN.1 strain of […]

Harvard University President Claudine Gay Resigns

Harvard University President Claudine Gay Resigns

Editorial credit: ThePhotosite / Shutterstock.com By NPR Staff | January 2, 2024 | npr.org Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced Tuesday afternoon that she will step aside following new accusations of plagiarism. Her resignation comes just six months after she was appointed in the top job. A letter from Gay, the university’s first Black president, […]

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