Tag: racism

There are some bright spots and plenty of options for reform that could make them more effective.

A product of environmental racism, “sacrifice zones” are located near pollution hot spots and are usually communities of color.

"Food desert" has become a common term to describe low-income communities—often communities of color—where access to healthy and affordable food is limited or where there are no grocery stores.

The trial is putting a spotlight on “the disproportionate killing of Black people by police” in the United States.

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism.”

The death of Floyd, who was a 46-year-old Black man and father originally from Houston, Texas, sparked international protests calling for racial justice.

“We are trapped in history.”

This transformation in one of America’s two eminent political parties has shocking implications, not just for the future of American democracy but for the future of democracy everywhere.

The crisis in Jackson, which is 82 percent Black, highlights how climate catastrophe threatens much of the nation’s aging infrastructure.

The prison guard faces possible life sentences for the two civil rights charges and another 20 years for the misleading information charge.