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The Biden-Harris administration highlighted new actions it is taking to address racial disparities in education, including $20 million in magnet school grants to attract students of color ...
Nearly 51 million students are enrolled in America’s public schools, but the system is far from equal. Segregationist policies, like school funding based on property values, are impeding the ...
The continuation of patterns of Black land dispossession exposes how—for all of the civil rights gains made over the last 60 years—there is still much to be done to secure racial equality in ...
Leland T. Saito, Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, writes, "Political rights have been circumscribed by race, class and gender since the founding of the United States, when the right to vote was restricted to White men of property. Throughout the history of the United ...
Racism against Arab Americans [291] and racialized Islamophobia against American Muslims have risen concomitantly with tensions between the American government and the Islamic world. [292] Following the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, discrimination and racialized violence has markedly increased against Arab Americans and many ...
The same study found that throughout Obama's presidency, there was a continually increasing negative relationship between racial prejudice and support for racial equality policies such as equal opportunity employment, school desegregation, etc. [16] Therefore, although the true percentage of American's who believe in a biological basis for race ...
Executive Order 13985, officially titled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, is the first executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. It directs the federal government to revise agency policies to account for racial inequities in their implementation.
Jrue and Lauren Holiday. Pledged up to $5.3 million to start a social justice fund. The Jrue and Lauren Holiday Social Justice Impact Fund will spend most of its money on supporting Black-owned ...