Latest News on Race
Cities Expanding Anti-Bias Laws to Cover LGBT Workforce
By Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports—June 6, 2018 Kansas City, Kan., recently joined dozens of municipalities across the country protecting the LGBT community from discrimination at work. While Kansas City is one of the latest cities to expand anti-discrimination...
Why Understanding Colorism Within the Latino Community Is So important
By Giselle Castro Growing up in a Peruvian and Colombian household, I was used to being around family members who had indigenous features like myself. With tan skin, thick black hair and dark features, I never felt a need to look differently, and have always been...
Black Actresses Raise Cannes Cry Against Racism
By Christopher Vourlias—May 17 2018 Frustrated with the lack of diversity and inclusion in the French film industry, 16 black actresses took to the red carpet in Cannes on Wednesday night, staging a protest against racism just days after 82 women, led by Cannes jury...
How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap
By Angela Hanks, Danyelle Solomon and Christian E. Weller—Feb. 21, 2018 Wealth—the measure of an individual’s or family’s financial net worth—provides all sorts of opportunities for American families. Wealth makes it easier for people to seamlessly transition between...
‘My Blackness Seemed Curious, Difficult to Handle’: The Day I Ran Away from Oxford University
By Michael Donkor—July 7 2018 On an overcast day in Oxford in 2003, a few weeks into the first year of an English literature degree, I found myself doing something out of character. I broke a rule. Rather than going to my scheduled tutorial, rather than sitting on the...
Responding to the Threat of Native American Racial Discrimination
June 14th, 2018 The public face of racial discrimination is usually an African American, or possibly Latino. However, members of any minority can face bias and prejudice at work and in their day-to-day lives. Tribal members, and others who identify as Native...
‘Baltimore’ Is an Exploration of Historical Trauma and the Impact of Racist Denial
By Claire White—June 12, 2018 Does calling offensive behavior “a joke” detract from degradation inflicted at someone’s expense? Is humor usually a deflection from assessing our insecurities? Can people thrive without fully embracing parts of themselves and their...
I’m Black and Latinx—What Do You Do When Neither Term Fits?
By Gabriela Thorne—June 13, 2018 "You don’t look Latina” and “You’re not Latina” were common phrases I heard growing up. For many, my brown skin and super-curly hair didn’t match up with their image of what a Latina was supposed to look like. It didn’t matter that...
This Is What It Feels Like to Be Black in White Spaces
By Elijah Anderson—June 9, 2018 Almost every black person in America has experienced the sting of disrespect on the basis of being black. A large but undetermined number of black people feel acutely disrespected in their everyday lives, discrimination they see as both...