House restarts conversation about reparations for Black Americans
The discussion of payments from the federal government comes as the administration focuses on racial equity. Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th
Anti-Immigrant Vitriol Complicates Vaccine Rollout in Southern States
Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News February 16, 2021 This story also ran on Daily Beast. It can be republished for free. In eastern Tennessee, doctors have seen firsthand how a hard-line immigration policy can affect the health and well-being of a community. In 2018, federal agents raided […]
Presidents have a long history of condescension, indifference and outright racism toward Black Americans
Stephen A. Jones, Central Michigan University and Eric Freedman, Michigan State University The fury over racial injustice that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing has forced Americans to confront their history. That’s unfamiliar territory for most Americans, whose historical knowledge amounts to a vague blend of […]
END THE SUB-MINIMUM TIPPED WAGE
This Black History Month, we have a chance to end this relic of slavery — and raise wages for workers of every color. By Rebekah Entralgo | February 10, 2021/OtherWords.com Assorted Ideas, Large & Small
Food Guidelines Change But Fail to Take Cultures Into Account
Chaseedaw Giles February 1, 2021 The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services have once again developed new food guidelines for Americans that urge people to customize a diet of nutrient-dense food. For the first time, they make recommendations for infant nutrition […]
At protests that draw counter-protesters, people on the left more likely to face arrest
by Clark Merrefield, Journalist’s ResourceJanuary 12, 2021 As hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters took over the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, journalists chronicled the striking differences in how law enforcement officials treated the insurrectionists compared with how they treated racial justice protesters who marched in dozens of cities […]
“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story originally appeared in ProPublica. by Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, […]
Black Men Have the Shortest Lifespans of Any Americans. This Theory Helps Explain Why.
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published by ProPublica. by Joseph Singer, Nadia Sussman, Nina Martin and Akilah Johnson COVID-19 has killed many young Black men with deadly efficiency. When ProPublica reporters […]
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. By by Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin/ProPublica The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates was a big man with big responsibilities. The […]
Water, but not everywhere: Research sheds light on race and water access in metro areas
By Clark Merrefield Originally published in Journalist’s Resource November 24, 2020 An estimated 1.1 million people living in the U.S. report lacking some access to running water in their homes, with nearly three-quarters of them living in cities and suburbs, finds new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based […]
