When this should be the week that brings out the best in people, one woman in Iowa epitomizes the worst of what is happening in our country under Trump; Think the gender pay gap is on equal footing? Not…
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The Persisting Impact of Racial Construction in Latin America
May 7, 2018, 12:13 PM 0
By Audrey Duc Council on Hemispheric Affairs Although racism is not a new phenomenon in Latin America, the demonstration of racism has appeared in new ways according to the development of the continent. A recent example is Jair Bolsonaro,…
By Ken Branson Futurity Confronting people who make racist statements may make them to reflect on their behavior and try to avoid repeating such statements, new research suggests. “We found that participants who were confronted felt bad about their…
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Guest Voz: A forgotten memory until Charlottesville
Aug 28, 2017, 11:42 AM 0
By Sam Dogen ncluido (Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the site Financial Sumarai.) The Financial Samurai In the summer of 1996, I got in my rusty Toyota Corolla hatchback and took off on a five and a…
By Max Pensky and Nadia Rubaii The Conversation There are those who say that comparing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler is alarmist, unfair and counterproductive. And yet, there has been no dearth of such…
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A call for U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Palomarez to resign
Aug 16, 2017, 11:48 AM 0
By Mario Solis Marich ncluido In the movie Casablanca there is a scene in which the local police leader and squishy arm of the Nazi regime, Captain Luis Renault, shuts down “Ricks Cafe Americain”. When asked by the…
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How online hate infiltrates social media and politics
Aug 16, 2017, 11:25 AM 0
By Adam G. Klein The Conversation In late February, the headline of a news commentary website that receives more than 2.8 million monthly visitors announced, “Jews Destroy Another One of Their Own Graveyards to Blame Trump.” The story, inspired…
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Seeking Peace and Justice, Alabama Nonprofit Builds Lynching Memorial
Aug 14, 2017, 1:25 PM 0
By Jared Foretek Saving Places For lawyer and author Bryan Stevenson, the United States can’t fully recover from its racial history until it honestly confronts its past. “Truth and reconciliation has always been sequential,” he says. “You can’t get…
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Sprint’s CEO’s response to customer’s racist tirade against Latino serves as model for others
May 23, 2017, 3:26 PM 0
By Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The retail mantra “the customer is always right” is a golden rule that retail stores have bent over backwards to accommodate since the beginning of retail but with more aggressive customers verbally abusing staff and…
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Does defending racist ‘free speech’ reveal prejudice?
May 4, 2017, 11:29 AM 0
By Brendan Lynch Futurity A new study finds a correlation between defending racist language and expression as “free speech” and racially prejudicial attitudes and beliefs. “The correlation between using the free speech defense and people’s own racial prejudice is pretty…
By Kelly Lytle Hernandez The Conversation It was not always a crime to enter the United States without authorization. In fact, for most of American history, immigrants could enter the United States without official permission and not fear criminal…
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I Used to Love America: How a Racist Jail System Changed Me
Apr 5, 2017, 10:15 AM 0
By Christine Alegre Juvenile Justice Information Exchange I used to love America, I believed in the “American dream.” I am the child of Peruvian immigrants who came to America seeking a better life and who, for the most…
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Will Airbnb’s policy to fight discrimination backfire?
Jan 17, 2017, 2:21 PM 0
By Erika Ebsworth-Goold Futurity More information about guests, not less, might help reduce racial discrimination against people who use services like Airbnb, a new study finds. “We know discrimination exists in the sharing economy,” says Dennis Zhang, assistant…
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Obama experienced subtle racism, but sexism toward Clinton was right out there
Nov 15, 2016, 12:44 PM 0
By George B. Cunningham The Conversation On Nov. 1, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller retweeted the results of a poll showing Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. He did so by referring to the Democratic presidential candidate as…
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Latina start-up founder offers wearable to those feeling persecuted for race, religion or sexual orientation
Nov 10, 2016, 4:35 PM 0
LatinaLista — From the start of his presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump has been accused of inciting violence towards Americans of color by promising his base he would: build a wall along the U.S./Mexican border; ban Muslims from entering the…
By Esther Canty-Barnes The Conversation On Wednesday, July 6, the four-year-old daughter of Diamond Reynolds witnessed the killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer. She and her mother sat in close proximity to Castile when he was shot. A…
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Crowdfunder: Creating first book chronicling important chapter in Chicano history 46 years after Uvalde student walkout
Jul 5, 2016, 3:21 PM 0
LatinaLista — In 1970, there was a school-wide walkout in Uvalde, Texas because the school board refused to extend the employment contract of a popular elementary teacher, Mr. Josue George Garza. Within a week the number of students participating…
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After ‘Racist’ Textbook Debate, Mexican-American Studies Educators, Advocates Convene in Texas
Jun 21, 2016, 11:27 AM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat It’s been a month since a proposed textbook for Mexican-American studies courses in Texas spurred widespread controversy over allegations of racism and inaccuracy, and ethnic studies advocates who convened at a 200-person summit in San…
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New study highlights toll of discrimination on immigrant youth
Dec 3, 2015, 6:29 PM 0
LatinaLista — Are young people becoming less kind with one another? Less willing to help each other? Most would say no. After all, one only has to look at the success of the many crowdfunding and social media campaigns….
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Brazil’s anti-racism campaign uses abusers’ own words (and neighbors) against them
Dec 3, 2015, 5:23 PM 0
LatinaLista — Brazil is a country home to over 202 million people, 51 percent who identify as black; 48 percent as white. Unfortunately, Brazil isn’t unlike its South American (global) neighbors in treating their non-white citizenry as second-class citizens….
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35 years later, Latinos with HIV fight for another kind of justice
Dec 1, 2015, 4:53 PM 0
LatinaLista — Thirty-five years after AIDS was first identified, the world has come a long way in understanding what it is, how it is transmitted, and how it has gone from being an automatic death sentence to one that…
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Are Texas textbooks making cops more trigger-happy?
Nov 18, 2015, 11:07 AM 0
By Naomi Reed The Conversation Perusing a passage on the Civil War in a high school student’s history textbook in Texas might leave you wondering if black Americans were ever enslaved and if there really is any truth…
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Anonymous sends a message: KKK behavior will no longer be socially tolerated
Nov 6, 2015, 12:57 PM 0
LatinaLista — If anything positive has come out of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it's the fact that he's "un-hooded" racism in this country. Unfortunately, it's his own racist views that he's revealing. The sad fact is that while many…
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Video: Creating a new movement showcasing how everyone’s sense of style is “What’s Underneath”
Nov 4, 2015, 5:45 PM 0
LatinaLista — Elisa Goodkind worked for over 20 years as a New York fashion stylist. Over time, she saw that commercial fashion was less about exhibiting a bold individuality but more about fitting a predetermined mold. At the same…
By La Monica Everett-Haynes Futurity African Americans may have to wait in a crosswalk about 32 percent longer than white people before drivers stop. Further, research suggests African Americans are twice as likely to be passed by multiple vehicles. “We…
