Discrimination
Large shares of Americans say there is at least some discrimination against several groups in the United States, including 80% who say there is a lot of or some discrimination against Black people, 76% who say this about Hispanic people and 70% who see discrimination against Asian people. Nearly half of Americans (46%) say there […]
Asian and Black Americans are more likely to report adverse experiences due to their race or ethnicity since the pandemic began About four-in-ten Asian (39%) and Black (38%) adults – and 27% of Hispanic adults – say someone has acted uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the coronavirus outbreak. Only 13% […]
Ron Dong was only 2 years old when his Chinese American parents moved to Coronado, Calif., a change that had been possible only because of a Black couple who defied anti-Asian segregation to rent a house to his family. More than 80 years later, Ron and his younger brother, Lloyd Dong Jr., 81, are carrying […]
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued an apology Tuesday to the city’s Black community for decades of discrimination − but issuing $5 million checks to make up for the harm is another matter. The 11-member board voted unanimously to approve a resolution apologizing “to all African Americans and their descendants who […]
At a Pennsylvania hospital, a Black nurse said her emergency room colleagues routinely withheld pain medication from Black patients who sought relief from sickle cell disease. In Montana, a phlebotomist said fellow health care workers often made “ignorant comments” about the hospital’s Native American patients. Both of these accounts surfaced in a report this week […]
Dominique Hill and Irving Smith Jr. had good jobs. Last year, Hill worked as a bartender at P.F. Chang’s in Tysons Corner and Smith had recently been promoted to bartender at Wildfire grill, also in Tysons. Each had more than a decade of experience working in restaurants and was making $700 . . .
The last page of Mabel Kahn’s November 4, 1944 letter to Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor. Mabel Kahn to Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, November 4, 1944; Charlestown Navy Yard, 1-GR-130, 1944-1945; Closed Regional Case Records, 1943-1946, Box 2; Records of the Committee on FEP 1940-1946, Record Group 228; National Archives at Boston. African […]
In a reflection of how pervasive racism and discrimination can be in daily life, a major new KFF survey shows that many Hispanic, Black, Asian, and American Indian and Alaska Native adults in the U.S. believe they must modify both their mindset and the way they look to stave off potential mistreatment during health care […]
75th anniversary of the UDHR – an impetus to combat racism The 2023 theme of the International Day focuses on the urgency of combatting racism and racial discrimination, 75 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Seventy-five years ago, for the first time, the international community agreed on a set […]
L-R: Kara Boyd, founder/president of Association of American Indian Farmers, John Boyd, Jr., founder/president of National Black Farmers Association, Attorney Benjamin Crump, at NBFA National Rally and Press Conference at National Mall, October 12, 2022. Photo credit: www.johnboydjr.com By Christopher Young,Contributing Writer, In Mississippi, where racism and oppression persist in full force, we continually call […]