White students were captured on video waving a Confederate flag at a Georgia school and did not face disciplinary action from administrators, WGCL-TV reported. In response, students at Coosa High School planned a protest against racism. A group of Black students was suspended for organizing the demonstration, while the non-Black organizers weren’t, students told the outlet. Students…
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Nearly 500 Idaho children lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19
More children with COVID-19 are being hospitalized in Idaho. Idaho hospitals are seeing the most cases of COVID-19 in children since the start of the pandemic. BY SARAH A. MILLER When Javier Castaneda, the principal of Heritage Community Charter School in Caldwell, died of COVID-19 last month at the age of 48, he left behind…
Explore the #ManyLenses of Taíno heritage
Inhabitants of the islands once called Quisqueya / Kiskeya (Dominican Republic) and Borinquen / Borikén (Puerto Rico) are the people Columbus encountered in the Caribbean. Some scholars contend these indigenous populations — often referred to under the umbrella term “Taíno”— ceased to exist just decades after Europeans arrived. Others have chronicled Taíno legacies in contemporary Latino Caribbean culture asserting…
What is Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Why’s it replacing Columbus Day? | ktvb.com
Research has shown that many schools do not accurately represent Indigenous peoples when they teach history. I think this is true not only on Indigenous Peoples Day, but throughout the school year. Researchers have found that K-12 schools tend to teach about Native Americans as if they existed only in the past. By revising the…
Knoxville officer knocked unconscious after racist remarks resigns
In July, Knox News exclusively reported the department began looking into Holt’s conduct after he was accused of making racist comments in a parking lot after a wedding. Holt is white. A police report says he repeatedly made racist remarks to a Black man who also attended same wedding. After warning Holt to quit making…
A neighborhood rally helped to quiet racist noise blaring from a Virginia home : NPR
Jannique Martinez’s home sits in a tidy cul-de-sac in Virginia Beach, Va., where she lives with her husband and kids and hosts the occasional bake sale. There’s just one problem, and it’s a loud one: a man who lives next door blares monkey sounds, banjo music and racist slurs at Martinez and her family —…
Numbers, not narratives, remedy misperceptions of the racial wealth gap | Yale News
The use of data is more effective than personal stories in helping people understand the magnitude and structural causes of the Black-white wealth gap in the United States, according to a new study by Yale researchers. The study, published on Sept. 13 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on…
Black Google Employee Explains Experience With Security: Report
A Black Google product manager said he was stopped by security and his job in a viral tweet last week, writes Taylor Ardrey for Insider. The employee said, “somebody called security on me because they didn’t believe I was an employee.” A Google spokesperson told Forbes that they take the worker’s “concerns very seriously.” A…
New study says ‘hidden workers’ are being excluded – Harvard Gazette
The vast majority of academic research on labor markets is from the supply side, says in Harvard Gazette. It doesn’t look at the employer as an animated object that makes decisions based on a rationale that may or may not be sound. Joseph B. Fuller said: Before I was a professor at HBS, I was…