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Leave no one behind. This goal is central to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – which represents the commitment of Member States to eradicate poverty in all its forms, to end discrimination and exclusion and to reduce inequalities and vulnerabilities. Yet discrimination, racism, sexism and intolerance continue, creating disparities in access to […]
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson addresses physicians gathered at the National Medical Association’s Quest for Health Justice Colloquium. (Courtesy photo/ NMA) Dr. Yolanda Lawson, the NMA’s 124th president, left, and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy. (Courtesy photo/ NMA) (WASHINGTON D.C. – April 12, 2024) The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, […]
“Together, we’ve kept our promises to make some of the most significant investments in the Black American community ever,” Biden said. He also noted his pardoning thousands of inmates convicted on federal marijuana charges, combating racial discrimination in the real estate market and canceling student debts for millions of Americans. Source link
President Joe Biden speaks to the National Action Network Convention remotely from the South Court Auditorium of the White House, Friday, April 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden virtually addressed the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racial justice conference on Friday, telling a sympathetic crowd “we’ve kept our promises” […]
In any given election season, the question of what Black voters want and how they’ll vote garners much media and political attention. Over the last fifteen years, both major political parties have touted their work on criminal justice reform as a way to demonstrate their commitment to one of the most pressing policy issues facing […]
Less than four years after George Floyd’s murder sparked a mass awakening to the inequities of the criminal justice system, political leaders across the country are returning to a tough-on-crime approach. In some cases . . .
Members Take Action Nationwide On July 20, the Teamsters joined other national labor organizations and racial and social justice groups in a national “Strike for Black Lives.” Hundreds of Teamsters in various industries held protests in 15 cities across the U.S., joined by thousands more who walked off of their jobs for eight minutes and […]
Racial and climate justice Sadly, ethnicity, race, class, and caste go hand in hand with the detrimental effects of climate change and fossil fuel-related inequalities. In India and Nepal, women and girls belonging to so called “low castes” such as Dalit, are more susceptible to the negative impacts of climate change as they are forced […]
“Intuitively, I am entirely sympathetic to your argument,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett told Brian Fletcher, the Justice Department lawyer defending a ban on devices that convert ordinary semiautomatic weapons into much more deadly guns capable of firing very rapidly, during a Supreme Court argument Wednesday morning. That’s probably a good sign that Barrett, a conservative […]
24 March 2022 It is now universally understood and accepted that the transatlantic trade in enchained, enslaved Africans was the greatest crime against humanity committed in what is now defined as the modern era. In terms of its scale and its social, psychological, spiritual and physical brutality, specifically inflicted upon Africans as a targeted […]