by courageousadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Race
By Geoff McHenry—Jan. 6 2021 I remember June 2020 like it was yesterday. Every top executive at every company in the country, looked at their black employees and asked a different version of the same question: “What can we do to support you and people like you?” In...
by courageousadmin | Dec 15, 2020 | Race
By Kyodo News—Dec. 7 2020 A Nike Japan video highlighting bullying and racism in Japan has sparked furious backlash online, with many posting pledges to boycott the sportswear brand for painting the nation in a negative light. The two-minute video titled “The...
by courageousadmin | Oct 8, 2020 | Race
By Doug Zanger—Oct. 7, 2020 Lawn signs are one of the most reliable and impactful staples of an election. Over the years in presidential elections, there have been some iconic designs that political junkies associate with specific candidates. In a new campaign,...
by courageousadmin | Sep 15, 2020 | Race
By Doug Zanger—July 21, 2020 Last month, a high-profile full-page print ad doubled as a protest sign in advance of Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., just after the Juneteenth holiday. The ad in The Oklahoma Eagle, one of America’s oldest Black-owned newspapers,...
by courageousadmin | Sep 15, 2020 | Race
By Laura Zingg—Sept. 14, 2020 The Latinx community is not a monolith, but full of rich complexity and history. This community includes individuals with roots in dozens of countries worldwide and those with multiple racial identities, cultural, and linguistic...
by courageousadmin | Sep 15, 2020 | Race
By Denise Lu, Jon Huang, Ashwin Seshagiri, Haeyoun Park and Troy Griggs—Sept. 9, 2020 The most powerful people in the United States pass our laws, run Hollywood’s studios and head the most prestigious universities. They own pro sports teams and determine who goes to...
by courageousadmin | Aug 19, 2020 | Race
By Marisa Peñaloza—August 16, 2020 When Le Hoang Nguyen put up a bright yellow billboard in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in Houston, the pushback from his community, “was immediate, it was vicious, my Facebook wall filled up with just hate...
by courageousadmin | Jul 17, 2020 | Media
By Daniel Bergner—July 15, 2020 In early June, Robin DiAngelo addressed 184 Democratic members of Congress who had gathered, by conference call, for what the party leadership had named a “Democratic Caucus family discussion on race.” It was 10 days after a Minneapolis...
by courageousadmin | May 1, 2020 | Race
By Dylan Scott—April 17, 2020 It has been clear for some time that the coronavirus pandemic is killing black and Latino Americans at disproportionately high rates, but new data from the last few days reveals just how devastating the Covid-19 crisis has been for people...
by courageousadmin | May 1, 2020 | Race
By Kurtis Alexander—April 17, 2020 The racial disparities that have plagued the cruel and uneven toll of the coronavirus across parts of the nation appear to be emerging in California. The state’s black residents are dying from COVID-19 at nearly twice the rate of...
