Tag: Race and ethnicity
Nonprofit EmbraceRace helps parents explain race to children
News about the police killing of George Floyd was everywhere. Officials at the Berkeley, Calif., school, where Perfecta Oxholm’s son attended kindergarten last year,...
Audio cut in speech on Black people’s role in Memorial Day
HUDSON, Ohio — Organizers of a Memorial Day ceremony turned off a speaker’s microphone when the former U.S. Army officer began talking about how...
Felled UK slave trader statue displayed; city mulls its fate
LONDON — A statue of a 17th-century slave trader that was toppled during anti-racism protests in the English city of Bristol is being displayed...
Georgia school officials condemn some teaching about race
ATLANTA — Georgia’s education board on Thursday approved a resolution that says the U.S. and Georgia are not racist and students should not be...
NFL judge: Lawyers for Black players can join mediation
PHILADELPHIA — The federal judge presiding over the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims on Thursday invited lawyers for Black players who...
SC lawmaker makes history as 1st Black woman to run for gov
BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. — Since the country's founding, no Black woman has ever served as a governor in the United States. But South Carolina Democratic...
DA defends ending deals with lawyer who called office racist
The elected district attorney in Pittsburgh is defending his decision to stop offering plea deals to clients of a Black criminal defense lawyer who...
Family: Black students in Washington upset by school project
SPOKANE, Wash. — A family in Spokane, Washington, is demanding that a school administrator be removed after he suggested he could segregate two Black...
A year later, racial reckoning yields uncertainty in giving
One year ago, as protesters filled America's streets demanding justice after George Floyd’s murder by police, corporations and major philanthropists pledged an outpouring of...
For Black Voters Matter, the goal is greater community power
LaTosha Brown opened with a song.
Speaking about voting rights...