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Like many African American professors, I teach at a predominantly white institution (Wheaton College) and live in the largely white small city where it’s located, outside Chicago. I have not experienced serious acts of discrimination, but that doesn’t make life simple. When people think about the difficulty of being Black in largely white spaces in […]
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President Joe Biden and then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson watch from the White House as the Senate votes to confirm her to the Supreme Court on April 7, 2022. Jackson is the first-ever Black woman to serve on the high court. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Nearly two-thirds of the federal judges President Joe Biden has appointed so […]
State Department’s annual report on religious freedom lists attacks on Muslims and Christians in the world’s most populous nation. The United States wants India to condemn persistent religious violence, says a senior government official, a month before a state visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The US State Department on Monday released its annual report […]
(CNN) A former US Army soldier accused of plotting to “physically remove” Black and brown people in several North Carolina counties is now facing up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty to a separate, gun-related charge, federal prosecutors announced. Noah Edwin Anthony, 23, pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle during his […]
Dive Brief: The Department of Labor has entered a $20 million agreement with TradesFutures — a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit — to advance equitable opportunities in the construction industry, according to a press release shared with Construction Dive. TradesFutures will use the funds to enroll over 13,000 participants in apprenticeship readiness programs, then place at least […]
Nationwide protests under the banner “women, life, freedom” continue sporadically in Iran, the most recent marking 40 days since the execution of two protestors. Among the most important achievements of the movement so far has been the degree to which it has brought various ethnic groups closer, further legitimizing demands for greater rights for the […]
“Thirty years ago, the world made a promise to do more to protect the human rights of people from national, ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities in all spheres of life,” said Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the milestone 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Minority Rights. On 18 December 1992, […]
A pioneering fellowship programme was launched in March this year by the Nightingale Academy at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) in honour of an iconic nurse, Kofoworola Abeni Pratt. Ms Pratt, a Nigerian national, was the first Black nurse to qualify from the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’ and was also believed to […]
Growing up, her parents didn’t mind what she studied, but she felt pressure from her extended family because they didn’t see non-STEM majors on the same level. These experiences aren’t just limited to the classroom. Yabut, the only person of color on the Pre-Vet Medical Association’s, or PVMA’s, executive board, discussed the lack of diversity […]