Daunte Wright was just a year older than me. He was a father, a recent graduate, a basketball fan, and most of all, beloved by…
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Only three years ago, mass shootings seemed to make national headlines nearly once a month. Gun control was at the center of the American political…
“They never told us uranium was dangerous. We washed our faces in it. We drank in it. We ate in it. It was sweet,” explained…
On March 2, as congressmembers considered the For the People Act, a bill that would enact the most comprehensive expansion of voting sights in the…
Launch yourself back into your first grade class and imagine this: Your teacher asks the class, “What’s four plus four?” Simple enough, you raise your…
White America is slowly but surely coming to the realization that when government-created and funded systems fail minorities, the intended systems have not broken; rather,…
Since the 1960s, Asian Americans have been upheld as the ideal immigrant. As one 1986 CNN article put it, “they are smarter and better educated…
Anti-Asian racism is surging, and it’s no secret as to why. Thanks to the bigoted lie that our community was responsible for bringing Covid-19 into…
This past summer was one of uproar and unrest, as hundreds of Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country due to outrage over our…
Algorithms in the justice system started off as a noble solution to a serious problem: the bias of judges. There are two distinct ways that…
Justice Pour Adama As Assa Traoré, a French anti-racism activist of Malian descent, followed the murder of George Floyd in late May 2020 and the…
During the time of Dr. King, when America boldly established that its original promise would live up to the meaning of its creed, that equality…
“This bill is being pushed through at the same time that the people across the United States are demanding the abolition of the prison industrial…
What Underhandedly Racist Comments Sound Like and Why They Call for Self-Reflection Although slavery was abolished in 1865, its long-lasting impact is still felt in…
The 2019 New York Fashion Week runways were said to be the most diverse ones yet, with an estimated 48 percent of the featured models…
As the technological revolution sweeps countries and cities all over the world, more and more daily activities are being mechanized. From iPhones being unlocked by…
While the rhetoric of a post-racial society has diminished the urgent claims for reparations, a national conversation has resurfaced. Largely because of the Ta-Nehisi Coates’s…
Racism is alive and well in America. But on February 20th of this year, a piece of that insidious system was dealt a stinging blow.…