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Too often, journalists write about marginalized communities, focusing mainly on their problems. Not Oscar Perry Abello (Next City) and Priti Salian (freelance), who have long written with and for communities. Between them, they’ve produced more than 75 stories exploring what’s working to help people . . .
Makella Coudray is passionate about advocating for disadvantaged groups. “I personally like championing causes for those that society may overlook, and I try to do that through my work,” she says. “Hence, my work focuses on marginalized populations such as sexual and gender minorities and racial and ethnic minorities.” Coudray is originally from Trinidad and […]
Policy Watch’s tagline is “Stories and Voices that Matter,” emphasizing our mission to bring you stories you don’t see elsewhere and to amplify the voices of those who might otherwise go unheard. This year, we pursued that mission with a series of stories highlighting some of those voices, including: The work of the state’s historically […]
Dr. LaVar Charleston had a crush on Dr. Sherri Charleston from the moment he met her in ninth grade. Dr. LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity & inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.“She was Claire Huxtable—beauty, brains, and personality,” said LaVar Charleston. While the […]
By Levi Sumagaysay ‘Unions have been hobbled by the fact that they have been historically implicated in racial discrimination themselves,’ says former NLRB chair William Gould The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series with business leaders, academics, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities. Today’s reinvigorated labor movement can . . .
By Levi Sumagaysay ‘Unions have been hobbled by the fact that they have been historically implicated in racial discrimination themselves,’ says former NLRB chair William Gould The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series with business leaders, academics, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities. Today’s reinvigorated labor movement can . . .
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim citizens than any other. Its students are transgender women. It is a rare oasis of LGBTQ acceptance – not […]
Funding from the U.S. Treasury and a community partnership is helping the Black-owned Industrial Bank help businesses and people in marginalized communities. Insight News reported that The U.S. Treasury Department’s Emergency Capital Investment
Growing up in North Carolina, Adkins attended preschool on an HBCU campus and cites this as an early inspiration for his interest in HBCUs, and his decision to research how leadership at HBCUs during the 19th and 20th century fought white supremacy. “I particularly look at how HBCU leaders’ childhoods shaped their ideas about education, […]
Individuals from minoritized ethnic communities are generally less likely to use mental healthcare services than the majority white population. Some of the reasons for disparities in mental health utilization by marginalized ethnic groups include provider discrimination, lack of adequate health insurance, high costs, limited access to quality care, stigma, mistrust of the healthcare system, and […]