The release of a video depicting the fatal beating of Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, sparked protests in NYC and other cities throughout the country. Nichols was violently beaten for three minutes and killed by Memphis police officers earlier this month after a traffic stop. Five Black Memphis Police officers have been fired after an…

by Michael Strickland Technology touches everyone, everywhere. Every household needs to have broadband access. It is no longer a luxury. But Large amounts of the population lack access to such services for internet use as well as other crucial forms of digital technology. This digital divide negatively impacts education, human connection, and job opportunities. Five…

Culture is a very complex construct. It has been studied in many fields, including anthropology, psychology, sociology, and management. Each of these fields has used its own methodology and terminology, which makes an already complex construct much more difficult even to specialists. Despite its complexity or possibly because of it, often, it has been defined…

The Idaho Conference on Refugees will be on February 22-23 (Wed/Thurs), 2023 at Boise State University Student Union Building (SUB). More conference information can be found on the Idaho Office for Refugees website. Student involvement for Intercultural Communication Class Write a 1000 word reflection/analysis in one of the following two ways. This will be a journal entry, no references…

The last two weeks have brought back the reminder that mass shootings in the United States continue unabated. In their wake, the Secret Service published a 60-page report on Wednesday that details the data they have about mass attacks, according to Walter Einenkel on Daily Kos. The study, conducted by the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center, examines 173 mass…

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The FBI recorded a drop in hate crimes in 2021, but the year’s tally may not give a true account of hate crimes in the United States as thousands of law enforcement agencies were absent from the accounting. The FBI annualized collection of data from law enforcement agencies saw 7,262 crimes motivated by race, religion,…

Bass said the initiative would not involve clearing out encampments where unhoused people gather, and said that in four years, a metric of the city’s success in tackling homelessness would be if there are little to no encampments left. “And there should not be 40,000 people who are unhoused, that’s for sure,” she said. Homelessness…

The internal study details the vacation rental company’s antidiscrimination efforts. But some travelers of color say it and other home-share companies don’t go far enough, the New York Times reports. In a report released on Tuesday, Airbnb acknowledged the issues and provided the first public data on the steps it has taken to reduce racial…