[Chicago Southeast Side Community]
For Chicagoans residing near industry, decades of exposure to environmental contaminants put residents at risk every time they go to the park, to school, or even attempt to enjoy family time in their backyard.
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Groups File Complaint against Chicago citing housing segregation, environmental racism
Study: Whites Treated Better Than Blacks When Seeking Business Loans
[National Community Reinvestment Coalition]
Sterling Bone: “We find troubling patterns that that loan program, that PPP program, was not offered equally across our test groups.”
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Latin America’s Black and Indigenous Women face “Triple Pandemic”
[Black Latin & Indigenous Women]
Thomas Reuters Foundation: “Women from Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, and other local communities are among the hardest hit by COVID-19. Health inequities and other forms of discrimination render them particularly vulnerable.”
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FENWAY INSTITUTE OF FENWAY HEALTH: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IMPLEMENTING UNHEALTHY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LGBTQ PEOPLE
[Discrimination\LGBTQ]
Fenway Institute’s Sean Cahill: “During Donald Trump’s third year as president, we moved from worrying that anti-LGBT policies would harm people to seeing the damage of these policies in action.”
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NEW YORK CONGRESSWOMAN VELASQUEZ: LACK OF DIVERSITY HURTING INVENTION, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
[Patent Diversity\Innovation]
Rep. Nydia Velázquez: “Applying for and obtaining a patent allows small firms to gain access to capital, find licensing deals, and level the playing field with larger competitors—all of which are vital to creating jobs and fostering economic growth.”
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GOVERNOR CUOMO, DEFENDING CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DEFENDS THE WORST EMBODIMENT OF “UGLY ITALIAN STEREOTYPES”
[Black Star Editorial\The Genocidal Legacy of Columbus]
In one entry, Las Casas talks about the legacy of cruelty that was unleashed by Columbus saying, the “killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the Native peoples, doing all this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola, once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons…In truth, I believe that the number of the slain is more like fifteen million.”
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NAACP ASKS COMCAST CORPORATION TO CEASE SUPREME COURT ATTACKS ON HISTORIC CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
[Supreme Court News]
Because of a dispute with a Black businessman, Comcast has urged the Supreme Court to roll back the crucial protections of one of the nation’s oldest civil rights laws, Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. For more than a century, Section 1981 has been used as an important tool to combat race discrimination, particularly for employment discrimination claimants. Former Justice Thurgood Marshall harnessed the power of Section 1981 to fight various forms of discrimination.
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PROCTER AND GAMBLE ADDRESSES RACIAL BIAS WITH NEW FILM “THE LOOK”
[Film News]
Campaign, Website Seeks to Build Empathy and Connection through Focus on Bias as Experienced by Black Men in America…
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