Historically, the term “white passing” was used to disenfranchise Black Americans with white ancestry.
read moreAs many traditional news organizations have closed down operations, many communities exist in news deserts with minimal to no news coverage.
read moreBlack Americans were less likely to take advantage of the mortgage refinancing boom due to unaddressed racial inequities in banking and real estate.
read moreThe 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.
read moreWhile reports of “government-funded crack pipes” are false, harm reduction activists support adding them to safe smoking kits.
read moreNew discoveries of unmarked graves bring ongoing injustices against Indigenous communities to the present.
read moreThe Department of Homeland Security announced that they would start considering migrants whose cases were terminated by the Trump administration.
read moreLast 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.
read moreLess 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.
read moreHistorically, 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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