By Rita Men | August 20, 2023 | The Conversation Many companies have made commitments toward diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in recent years, particularly since the murder of George Floyd sparked weeks of racial justice riots in 2020. But some of those efforts, such as hiring diversity leaders and creating policies to address racial inequality, have stalled or reversed at the same […]
By: Per Urlaub and David Huenlich // TheConversation.com Editorial credit: Consolidated News Photos / Shutterstock.com German Americans paved Donald Trump’s road into the White House in 2016 through Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. This ethnic group barely receives attention in American media and politics. The Midwest, home to many German Americans, is a battleground for […]
Listen to a special podcast Article: By Samantha Max, Gothamist.com Police found a weapon in about one out of six pedestrian stops last year and found a firearm in about one out of 13 stops, a Gothamist analysis of NYPD data shows. The majority of stops resulted in no arrest or summons. This as pedestrian […]
Sept 26, 2020 – Welcome signs “Welcome to City Island, Settled 1685, The Garden Club of City Island”, Bronx, New York City, USA. By Chris Jose, NBC New York The only Black-owned restaurant in a Bronx neighborhood has become the target of racist hate, after a hand-drawn picture depicting racial stereotypes was delivered to the […]
By Marcus Solis, ABC7 NY SOMERS, New York (WABC) — The superintendent of one school district in Westchester County stopped and English class mid-lesson after getting complaints from parents. An optional handout during the 10th-grade English class at Somers High School sparked outrage among parents who were texted pictures by their children of journal prompts. […]
By Lora Kolodny, CNBC When Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took over at Twitter, showing up at headquarters on Oct. 27, 2022, online trolls and bigots raided the social network, polluting it with a deluge of racist epithets and other hate speech. But a new study from the nonprofit Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) […]
Rome, Italy – May 05, 2022: Detail of the cover of the book Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965 in collaboration between human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. (Shutterstock) By Rich Mckay, Reuters Oct 30 (Reuters) – A man exonerated last year in the 1965 slaying of Black activist Malcolm X […]
Photo: Ketanji Brown Jackson (2016-2022) at Loeb House at Harvard University. By Hassan Kanu, Reuters (Reuters) – The newest U.S. Supreme Court justice made waves in one of her first days on the bench when she cited legislative history from the 1800s to point out that it’s permissible to consider race when drawing electoral maps. […]
By Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation It’s an old saying that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language. But they are united by racial wealth gaps that formed at a similar time for related reasons. Black Britons of the “Windrush generation,” arriving in Britain from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1973, and […]
MEMPHIS – AUG 19: Protesters surround Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, calling for its removal in the #TakeEmDown901 campaign to dismantle confederate propaganda, August 19, 2017. (Shutterstock) By Meghan Tinsley, The Conversation Whiteness is a modern, colonial invention. It was devised in the 17th century and used to provide the logic for genocide and slavery. The […]