Tag: discrimination
Biden administration ends Trump-era rule, banning discrimination against transgender people in...
“Everyone – including LGBTQ people - should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period.”
The Trump administration’s final push to make it easier for religious...
Last-minute policies on religious freedom clear the way for employers to hire on the basis of faith. Some of the changes won't be easy for Biden to undo.
10 reasons why defunding police should lead to defunding war
If we find indiscriminate state violence in our streets appalling, we should feel similarly about state violence abroad, and call for divesting from both police and the Pentagon, and reinvesting those taxpayer dollars to rebuild communities at home and abroad.
Taking down the statue
This attack on Fraser’s work comes in the midst of a nation-wide movement to tear down statues which desecrate the history of blacks and Native Americans.
Five black & brown men have been recently found hanged in...
“They deserve a full investigation and given the context of this history … that we look at them more than three days, and then that they are looked at as a whole.”
Coronavirus discriminates against Black lives through surveillance, policing and the absence...
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Fighting for America’s soul
Progressives are fighting to save the values and institutions on which their country was founded.
Fox contributor and former Trump top staffer David Bossie tells Black...
Bossie later said that he "should have chosen my words more carefully."
LGBTQ workers still face employment discrimination
In an era when 90 percent of America believes it is unfair to discriminate against someone due to their sexual orientation, it’s remarkable we haven’t made this law.
Asia: 260 million indigenous peoples marginalized, discriminated
Asian indigenous peoples face discrimination and marginalization, heavy assimilation pressure and violent repression by state security forces.
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Popular sugar substitute erythritol damages blood-brain barrier, elevating stroke risk
A new study shows how erythritol, a zero-calorie sugar alternative, directly damages human cells that comprise the blood-brain barrier.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.
Amazon deforestation falls to eight-year low as scientists warn gains remain fragile
Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.
Ready or not, AI government is already here
Automation has shaped governments for decades, but new AI-driven systems are taking on functions from warfare to welfare. Promising speed and efficiency, their growing influence over decision-making complicates political accountability and risks autonomous governance being beyond human control.