by courageousadmin | Apr 27, 2020 | Race
By Ibram X. Kendi—April 14, 2020 I grew up in the Christian Church, the second son of two ministers. I’m not one for making biblical references about my life, but I can’t say the same about my father. Two weeks ago, Dad likened me to John the Baptist, a voice crying...
by courageousadmin | Apr 27, 2020 | Race
By Verenice Gutierrez, PhD—April 14, 2020 I am an aunt to mostly boys of color, four so far. I am a godmother to two boys of color. My partner is a man of color who was pathologized and living that reality until I helped him create a new one. In my district, we have...
by courageousadmin | Apr 24, 2020 | Media
By Adweek Staff—April 16, 2020 Adweek continued to establish our commitment to diversity, inclusion, equality and equity earlier this year with the hiring of Mary Emily O’Hara, our first reporter dedicated to the topic. Over the past several months, we have published...
by courageousadmin | Apr 17, 2020 | Race
By Bill Hutchinson—April 12, 2020 An African American doctor, who has been battling the coronavirus pandemic in his hospital and on the streets of Miami, was detained and handcuffed in front of his own home by a police sergeant as he loaded up his van with supplies he...
by courageousadmin | Apr 17, 2020 | Race
By Associated Press and Lauren Edmonds—April 11, 2020 African officials confronted China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too. As China prepares for a...
by courageousadmin | Apr 17, 2020 | Race
April 11, 2020 Dr. Fredrick Echols, Director of the St. Louis Department of Health, has confirmed that as of April 8th, all 12 COVID-19 deaths in the city of St. Louis, Missouri were African Americans. This is the first major city in the United States to report such a...
by courageousadmin | Apr 14, 2020 | Race
By Samantha Artiga, Rachel Garfield, and Kendal Orgera—April 7, 2020 The COVID-19 outbreak presents potential health and financial challenges for families, which may disproportionately affect communities of color and compound underlying health and economic...
by courageousadmin | Apr 14, 2020 | Race
By African American Policy Forum—April 2, 2020 The past several weeks have prompted unprecedented levels of turmoil and unpredictability due to rising alarm over COVID-19. While American society has taken precautionary measures to counter the spread of the virus,...
by courageousadmin | Apr 14, 2020 | Race
By African American Policy Forum—March 28, 2020 The past several weeks have prompted unprecedented levels of turmoil and unpredictability due to rising alarm over COVID-19. While American society has taken precautionary measures to counter the spread of the virus,...
by courageousadmin | Apr 10, 2020 | Race
By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood—April 6, 2020 For the first time in history, the US State Department has named a white supremacist organization as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Nathan Sales, the department’s coordinator for counterterrorism,...
