Adnan Syed, recently exonerated after spending over two decades behind bars, is now working as a program associate for Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, the school announced. The initiative “addresses the root causes and consequences of mass incarceration and offers educational programs and training for incarcerated individuals and returning citizens,” the school said. In…
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The Los Angeles mayor says the city will move unhoused people indoors : NPR
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…
Black Travelers Say Home-Share Hosts Discriminate, and a New Airbnb Report Agrees – The New York Times
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…
The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a domestic violence alarm against and for its own citizens💔
The following Summary of Terrorism Threat to the United States is from the official United States government site of the Department of Homeland Security. The United States remains in a heightened threat environment. Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal…
How Crypto Failed Black Investors
Black investors who distrusted traditional finance. They had good reasons for their suspicion: Traditional financial institutions charge Black people more for mortgages, appraise their homes for less, deny them loans and jobs at high rates, and continue to redline their communities. Many Black investors also read headlines promising that crypto was an engine for racial equity, saw constant advertisements for coin offerings and…
There are women in prison being housed as men, assaulted as women, with little recourse
One of the byproducts of the discrimination of the trans population is that it makes them more vulnerable to arrest, them webmagazine reports. Trans women are more likely than the general population to be unemployed and live in poverty, both risk factors for engaging in illegal activity. Finding traditional employment can be challenging. As a result,…
What Makes Humor Racist?
It’s slightly ironic that Gillis considers himself a risk-taking boundary-pusher when the comedy in these podcast episodes was, among other things, unoriginal. He employed shopworn tropes, racist and homophobic language, age-old myths about Chinese food, and ignorant attitudes about Chinatown and Asian Americans. Most Asian or Asian American people — likely including Gillis’s future co-worker…
Fox News Does Awkward About-Face on Kanye West After Antisemitic Rant
On Fox News, where “White Lives Matter” seems to be worth celebrating, threatening “death con 3” on all Jewish people is a bridge too far. The network spent a good part of last week hyping up Kanye West’s for sporting a “White Lives Matter” shirt at Paris Fashion Week, complete with a two-night sit-down interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight. But in…
After Matt Rhule’s firing, Steve Wilks steps into unwinnable spot too many Black coaches have found themselves
It’s a depressingly familiar situation: A white coach steers his team straight into the iceberg, and a Black coach is tasked with trying to keep it afloat for the remainder of a season, no matter how much water it has taken on. In that way, however, NFL teams are simply continuing the American tradition of…
Powerful Voices Back Push For Educator Diversity
Manny Cruz, Latinos For Education advocacy director for Massachusetts, said one of the organization’s major goals is to get more educators of color and bilingual teachers into classrooms. Read more about education diversity HERE.
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