“Woke” is now best known as a negative political buzzword used to describe anything deemed too liberal or progressive—like brands that support Pride Month, The Little Mermaid live-action film and teaching about race…
Nearly sixty years after the last state in the nation abolished slavery, Ohio's Constitution still allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Ohio lawmakers say enough is enough. Reps. Dontavius Jarrells,…
An Oregon teachers union is considering creating a task force which would charge educators in the black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) communities lesser membership dues in an effort to…
Nina Totenberg Updated June 8, 20238:58 PM ET The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stepped back from the brink of totally gutting the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. By a 5-to-4 vote,…
NEW YORK -- Startling data released by education officials in New York City has shed some light on the persistent racial and ethnic disparities within the city's elite public high schools.…
How does a city even begin to repair the harms caused by slavery and other forms of racism? The answer entails deeply complex conversations about discrimination, what constitutes appropriate redress,…
1921 massacre obliterated a prosperous Black community, marking one of American history's darkest chapters of racial violence HOUSTON, US It has been more than 100 years since the massacre that…
Gina Castro June 1st, 2023 The city is confident the federal Internal Revenue Service won’t take a cut of an individual’s cash reparations payment for taxes, but isn’t as certain…
In 2020, California established the first-in-nation law to study and develop reparations proposals for slavery and its lingering negative effects on African Americans. The resulting Reparations Task Force recently approved recommendations on how the…
A landmark report from the state’s reparations task force could take decades to implement, as major proposals remain unpopular with voters. Both legislative proposals that failed in recent days had…