Multiracial
CNN — Amy Iwasaki Mass knows the power of apology and reparations. She was in the first grade when her family and more than a hundred thousand other Japanese Americans were rounded up by the federal government and sent to internment camps in response . . .
CNN — Amy Iwasaki Mass knows the power of apology and reparations. She was in the first grade when her family and more than a hundred thousand other Japanese Americans were rounded up by the federal government and sent to internment camps in response to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941.
03:58 – Source: CNN Why there is growing multiracial support for reparations CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam reports on the growing wave of multiracial support for Black American reparations — with many Jewish and Japanese organizations among them.
CNN — Amy Iwasaki Mass knows the power of apology and reparations. She was in the first grade when her family and more than a hundred thousand other Japanese Americans were rounded up by the federal government and sent to internment camps in response . . .
The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with Madison County Schools in Kentucky to resolve its investigation into complaints of serious and widespread racial harassment of Black and multi-racial students. The department opened its investigation in October 2021 under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The department’s investigation uncovered numerous incidents […]
Topline Americans became more racially diverse and earned more money in almost every state, from 2016 to 2020 according to the Census Bureau’s newly released American Community Survey (ACS), which aims to offer a more detailed picture of racial and ethnic demographics with newly refined survey questions. Convention attendees wave flags at the FleetCenter in […]
CNN — As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were among the effort’s biggest supporters, she says. Masaoka said winning . . .
Their appeals were ignored. To understand the urgency of defending voting rights and the country’s young and fragile multiracial democracy, turn to Keisha N. Blain’s incredible new book, “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.” In the volume, Blain, an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the […]
“If you are constantly being described as non-White, why would you still choose White?” said Abadía-Rexach, a Black Latina and member of Colectivo Ilé, an anti-racism group of educators and organizers in Puerto Rico. The figures released by the Census Bureau Thursday show that the multiracial population in almost every county in the United States […]
Over the past decade, the United States continued to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, according to the results of last year’s national head count that the U.S. Census Bureau released this week. There are many ways to slice the data and change how the demographic snapshot looks. Since the 2000 count, participants have been […]