Richmond Hate Crime Community Forum Dec. 10

By | December 8th, 2016|Conflict Resolution, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Please JOIN us for a Forum to address Hate Crimes, Intimidation and Harassment, as well as the fear of deportation felt by our Immigrant Communities!

Representatives from various organizations will be present to listen to your concerns and offer resources. We are fortunate to have community leaders who are fighting to protect

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Can racist tweets help predict hate crimes? L.A. is about to find out

By | September 23rd, 2016|Hate Crimes|

Can police prevent hate crimes by monitoring racist banter on social media?

Researchers will be testing this concept over the next three years in Los Angeles, marking a new frontier in efforts by law enforcement to predict and prevent crimes.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

 

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LA’s housing crunch leaves disabled with few options

By | September 13th, 2016|Disability, Employment & Housing|

Paralyzed from the waist down and requiring a wheelchair, Pacoima resident Martin Rosales struck out last week when he went apartment hunting.

At one Van Nuys building, his wheelchair was too big for the apartment’s front door. Another unit’s bathroom was too small.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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U.S. Household Income Grew 5.2% in 2015, Breaking Pattern of Stagnation

By | September 13th, 2016|Employment & Housing|

WASHINGTON — For American families, household incomes rose strongly in 2015, breaking a yearslong pattern of income stagnation. The median household’s income in 2015 was $56,500, an increase of 5.2 percent over the previous year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.

Read more in The New York Tines.

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White House considers ending for-profit immigrant detainee centers but critics say it could add billions to the cost

By | September 6th, 2016|Immigration|

The Obama administration is considering an end to the practice of keeping immigrant detainees in for-profit centers, weeks after the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it would stop its use of private prisons.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Campuses Cautiously Train Freshmen Against Subtle Insults

By | September 6th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

WORCESTER, Mass. — A freshman tentatively raises her hand and takes the microphone. “I’m really scared to ask this,” she begins. “When I, as a white female, listen to music that uses the N word, and I’m in the car, or, especially when I’m with all white friends, is it O.K. to sing along?”

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In Brooklyn, Stifling Higher Learning Among Hasidic Women

By | September 6th, 2016|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In the mid-1940s, Joel Teitelbaum, an eminent and charismatic rabbi, immigrated to the United States, colonizing a section of Williamsburg in Brooklyn for his Hasidic sect, the Satmar, its name taken from the Hungarian town of Szatmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum had fought to resist the encroachments of a modernizing society.

Read more in The

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How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare

By | August 15th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

Sharp differences along lines of race and politics shape American attitudes toward the poor and poverty, according to a new survey of public opinion, which finds empathy toward the poor and deep skepticism about government antipoverty efforts.

The differences illuminate some of the passions that have driven this year’s contentious presidential campaign.

Read more in the Los

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Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say

By | August 15th, 2016|Intergroup Relations|

The burning buildings, smashed police cars and scuffles between police officers and angry protesters on Milwaukee’s north

side over the weekend might have seemed like a spontaneous eruption.

But for many in the city’s marginalized black community, it was

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