Recently, several current and former employees of Wells Fargo—including one high-ranking executive—reported that the financial services giant regularly conducted sham interviews with women and people of color. Evidently, Wells Fargo…
Black and Hispanic students bore the brunt of the pandemic loss compared to white classmates, according to a recent study. This story originally appeared May 20, 2022, in Capital B News.…
Impacted Parents, Advocates Speak on Racial Disparities, Harm to Black Families A New York State committee voted today to investigate racial disparities in the state’s child welfare system. The investigation…
Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling on New York state lawmakers to pass legislation that would ban the sale of AR-15-style rifles to people under age 21. The 18-year-old white supremacist…
Senate Democrats say a major floor debate on gun control is inevitable after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, left at least 19 children and two adults dead, only 10…
A clinical psychologist describes what helped children cope in the aftermath of another mass shooting at an elementary school. Katelyn Campbell, a clinical psychologist in South Carolina, is sharing a…
The order will create a national registry of officers fired for misconduct and encourage state and local police to tighten restrictions on chokeholds and no-knock warrants. ive order on anniversary…
They are also two to three times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy than white women, according to the CDC The repeal of federally protected abortion rights…
BIG TECH HAS MADE PROMISES TO AMPLIFY DEI INITIATIVES OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, YET ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT, CONDITIONS HAVE WORSENED FOR BLACK WOMEN TECHNOLOGISTS IN THE WORKPLACE.…
Twenty House Democrats, including Reps. Katie Porter of California and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, are calling on Senate leaders to move quickly with a reconciliation bill (meaning they only need…