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Nia Norris

Why I Shifted from Saying “White Passing”
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Why I Shifted from Saying “White Passing”

Historically, the term “white passing” was used to disenfranchise Black Americans with white ancestry.

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The Rise in News Deserts Threatens Democracy
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The Rise in News Deserts Threatens Democracy

As many traditional news organizations have closed down operations, many communities exist in news deserts with minimal to no news coverage.

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Black Homeowners Are Being Left Out of the Refinancing Boom
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Black Homeowners Are Being Left Out of the Refinancing Boom

Black Americans were less likely to take advantage of the mortgage refinancing boom due to unaddressed racial inequities in banking and real estate.

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Can Safe Consumption End America’s Overdose Epidemic?
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Can Safe Consumption End America’s Overdose Epidemic?

The opening of the first legalized safe consumption site in New York is allowing people who use drugs a safe place to consume drugs in the hopes of preventing overdoses.

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The Hysteria Over Government-Funded Crack Pipes
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The Hysteria Over Government-Funded Crack Pipes

While reports of “government-funded crack pipes” are false, harm reduction activists support adding them to safe smoking kits.

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Unpack the history of Indigenous boarding schools.

Unpack the history of Indigenous boarding schools.

New discoveries of unmarked graves bring ongoing injustices against Indigenous communities to the present.

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Understand the asylum process.

Understand the asylum process.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that they would start considering migrants whose cases were terminated by the Trump administration.

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Compensate student-athletes.

Last Monday, the Supreme Court made a decision that could significantly impact the lives of student-athletes. The Court ruled against the National College Athletic Association to allow student-athletes to receive education-related payments of up to $6,000 a year and unlimited non-cash education-related benefits (CNN). College sports bring in billions of dollars of revenue each year. The 2019 March Madness tournament was estimated to have brought $1.18 billion in advertising revenue for CBS and Turner Sports, with networks paying about $800 million for the rights (CNBC). Given the profitability of college athletics, it would be expected that athletes receive fair compensation for the labor that they perform.

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Learn the cost of college remediation.

Less than a quarter of community college students who take remedial courses go on to complete college-level courses. At four-year colleges, just over a third of students assigned to remediation continue to take college-level courses. The majority of students assigned to remediation at two-year colleges or universities will not graduate within three years or six years, respectively (Complete College America). Students who take remedial courses pay just as much for these courses as students who begin with college-level courses and are often left with student loan debt for coursework that did not lead to a degree.

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Disparities in Crack Cocaine Sentencing Targets the Black Community
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Disparities in Crack Cocaine Sentencing Targets the Black Community

Historically, drug policy has been written with racist intentions and fueled by hysteria over the war on drugs. This has led to racial disparities in sentencing for crack cocaine possession.

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