KEY POINTS The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a pair of reports on Tuesday critiquing shortfalls in the nation’s unemployment benefit system during the Covid-19 pandemic.Among them were delayed payments,…
In the more than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, Black American wealth remains a fraction of that held by White Americans. Just after emancipation in 1865,…
LaGina Gause is an assistant professor in the political science department at UC San Diego and the author of “The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized…
SACRAMENTO – As part of California’s historic Assembly Bill 3121 (AB 3121), the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans (Reparations Task Force) today released an interim…
Contact: Parker Gavigan, Director of Communications pgavigan@providenceri.gov Reparations Commission Providence, RI – At tonight’s City Council meeting, councilors appointed five new members to the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission. In 2022, Mayor…
For decades, nine U.S. Army bases have carried the names of men who fought against the U.S. Army – in a war waged to defend and perpetuate the slavery of…
Policy Report Jun 2 Suffering and Vigilance among Chinese Americans in New York City and California during the COVID-19 pandemic Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans, especially…
Under a push to develop nuclear energy, the U.S. is exploring sources for uranium to fuel them. An Indigenous tribe is worried that an uranium mine near the Grand Canyon…
The Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions “triple-COP” is a unique event. It brings together three distinct conventions that together protect human health and the environment by governing hazardous chemicals and…
The UN Secretary-General has condemned “in the strongest terms” a brutal attack on a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria at the weekend, which left at least 50 people dead and wounded dozens…