Friday, January 17, 2025

Tag: racism

Blacks and Hispanics seeking parole face widening racial disparity, report finds

New York Times brought the racial disparity to light in 2016 when it reported “that fewer than one in six Black or Hispanic men was released at his first hearing, compared with one in four white men.”

Segregation academies across the South are getting millions in taxpayer dollars

Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation—and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities.

When the KKK murdered my childhood friend 

We must never give in to cruelty and violence. It is incumbent on all of us to stand up to bullies and be each other’s protectors.

The killing of Breonna Taylor still reverberates in Kentucky politics

Will Taylor’s death weigh heavily on many voters in the county?

Racist white man fatally shoots three Black people at Florida store

'He hated Black people,' the sheriff said.

After Black pregnant woman’s false arrest, Markey renews call for federal...

"We need to pass my bill to prohibit the use of biometric technologies by federal entities and law enforcement so that people like Porcha aren't wrongly accused."

‘Absolutely insane’: Greg Abbott seeks pardon for man convicted of murdering...

"Now the man who killed Garrett Foster, while Foster protested George Floyd's murder, will be pardoned. George Floyd's pardon is still stuck with the Board of Pardons. If a fiction author wrote this, no one would believe it."

Marjorie Taylor Greene advocates for secession—again, so—Speaker McCarthy makes her Speaker...

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her calls for a "national divorce" is a call for illegal secession.

The coming nightmare: White supremacists/extremists prepare to take total control of...

So, what will Republicans do if they find some way to win this election and take over the entire government?

Environmental racism is poisoning America’s waters

Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame.

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Trump Treasury nominee Scott Bessent opposes raising $7.25 minimum wage despite millions living in...

Bessent links wage policies to state decisions while critics warn of deepening inequality.

Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role in fueling climate...

Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.

Democrats have a massive opportunity as a pure opposition party

If they want to win, Democrats should view themselves not as the minority—but as the opposition.

3M knew firefighting foams were toxic for decades, documents reveal

Revelations show 3M misled the public about PFAS chemicals’ dangers, contributing to global contamination.

The Santa Ana by Joan Didion

Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.