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09-20-2024 7:33 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Kamala Harris speaks at her alma mater, Howard University(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is well known for producing luminaries like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and author Toni Morrison. Now its students and alumni are turning attention to the person who could become their most famous graduate: Vice President Kamala Harris. If Harris wins the White House, she would be the first woman elected president and the first graduate of a historically Black college to hold that office.
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Artificial intelligence will allow employers to automate functions long performed by human workers but instead of being a job killer AI might be more like major technological breakthroughs of the past — the steam engine, electricity, the Internet: eliminating some jobs while creating others and increasing productivity READ MORE
Minority athletes don’t just bear their countries’ hopes for gold at the Olympics and Paralympics. They also represent their identities and culture. Yet social scientists say prejudice can be reduced through positive images of athletes
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People denied church burials were interred in the cemetery for more than 120 years until the late 19th century. The cemetery was covered over by a lumberyard as the city by the Hudson River grew. Archaeological excavations over the last three summers have located the remains of up to 27 people. Now money is being raised to turn the urban backyard into a respectful resting place. Advocates hope DNA and other tests will provide information on those buried there and possibly identify descendants.
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The report also highlights that Black Americans are particularly likely to perceive local crime news as biased, especially in terms of racial and ethnic fairness. This perception aligns with previous Pew Research findings that have shown Black Americans to be more attuned to racial bias in both policing and news coverage. Black Americans are also more engaged with local crime news, with 45% reporting that they often get news about local crime—a higher rate than that of Hispanic, white, or Asian Americans.
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Zaire Byrd (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely to receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions and being transferred to alternative schools. A decade ago, those gaps became the target of a newly energized reform movement spurred by the same reckoning that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Emmett Louis Till (AP Photo)
Newly unearthed research notes and letters from William Bradford Huie, the journalist whose reporting on the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till helped shape the public’s understanding of the crime, reveal that Huie deliberately concealed vital details that could have implicated additional participants in the murder. These documents, recently released by the descendants of one of the lawyers involved in the case, suggest that Huie prioritized his financial interests and the protection of his sources over the pursuit of truth and justice.
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Kayleigh Butler (AP Photo/Kenya Hunter, File)
Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Shontel Brown of Ohio pressed the FDA to finalize the proposed rule soon. The target date has been pushed back to September. Rep. Nydia Velázquez of New York joined Pressley and Brown in spearheading the letter. It isn't uncommon for the FDA to have items on the regulatory agenda for years. Research has liked formaldehyde in hair-straightening products to increase rates of cancer.
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Marvin Ellison, Lowe's CEO (AP Photo, File)
Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of a few other companies who have altered their programs since the end of affirmative action in higher education and amid conservative backlash online. In an internal memo, Lowe’s executive leadership said the company began reviewing” the company's diversity and inclusion programs in July 2023 and has made some changes to ensure the programs are “lawful” and aligned with its commitment to “include everyone.”
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Earl Lewis, director of the Center for Social Solutions (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
Nonprofits like Forward Through Ferguson see a surge in giving while their cause is in the spotlight, only to see donations quickly dry up. The racial reckoning sparked in Ferguson, Missouri, was supposed to be different. But it didn’t turn out that way, slowing or, in some cases, stopping the progress that these new community groups hoped to make by the 10th anniversary of Brown’s death.
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