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ST. LOUIS ‒ They feed the hungry. They counter violence and racial injustice. They fight for criminal justice reform and against book bans. And this week, more than 4,200 of them came together ...
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice ...
Yet, racial injustice has been baked into our education system since its genesis. We still can’t shake it. Nearly 51 million students are enrolled in America’s public schools , but the system ...
Racial profiling is defined as "any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin, rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or having been, engaged in criminal activity."
2.10 Tulsa Race Massacre Anniversary protests, May 31, 2021 2.11 Winston Boogie Smith protests and Uptown Minneapolis unrest, June 3, 2021–November 3, 2021; vehicle-ramming attack June 13, 2021 2.12 Kyle Rittenhouse protests, November 1, 2021–November 19, 2021
By mid-June, American national culture and attitude towards racial injustice began to shift, including the Senate Armed Services Committee's approval of process to rename military facilities named for Confederate generals. [20] American public opinion of racism and discrimination shifted in the wake of these protests.
Racial oppression in the U.S. is the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper global phenomenon of white privilege that has for too long been conveniently ignored. It should not be at the center of ...
The new century saw a hardening of institutionalized racism and legal discrimination against citizens of African descent in the United States. Throughout the post-Civil War period, racial stratification was informally and systemically enforced, to solidify the pre-existing social order.