In the final stretch of Fusion’s Iowa Brown and Black Forum held at Drake University on Monday night, a Drake junior stood and posed a question to Democratic presidential primary front-runner Hillary Clinton. It wasn’t long, but boy did it produce quite an answer.
“Secretary Clinton, can you tell us what the term ‘white privilege’ means
SF Human Rights Commission also recognized for its advocacy related to violence prevention in the Trans Community and for overall programming & advocacy related to empowering City’s LGBT community
(San Francisco, CA) The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, recently released its Municipal Equality Index (MEI) scorecard awarding the
WASHINGTON — Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and mosques across the United States have tripled in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., with dozens occurring within just a month, according to new data.
The
Average Monthly Totals of Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Nearly Triple
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks of November, 13 that left 130 dead and the San Bernardino, Calif. terror attack of December 2 that killed 14 and left another 22 wounded, anti-Muslim hate crime attacks appear to have risen sharply across the United States to
State investigators are calling for immediate action at a Northern California prison with an “entrenched culture” of racism and violence, where guards allegedly have set inmates up for attack.
In a special report released Wednesday, the independent Office of Inspector General said that abuse and cover-ups at the High Desert State Prison in Susanville were so
I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m Chinese-American and my husband is white, an American of English-Dutch-Irish descent; we have two children. My 5-year-old knows my parents were born in China,
As a chemical engineering major who aced high school science courses and was a regional leader in the National Society of Black Engineers, becoming a physics tutor at the University of Texas at Austin came easily to Claiborne Jones.
But students never seemed to seek his help.
“People I was tutoring would blow
In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scaliahesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than
TULLIALLAN, Scotland — The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations.
But a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in Scotland, where 98 percent of the
The nation’s middle class, long a pillar of the U.S. economy and foundation of the American dream, has shrunk to the point where it no longer constitutes the majority of the adult population, according to a new major study.
The Pew Research Center report released Wednesday put in sharp relief the nation’s increasing income divide, which