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09-09-2024 3:44 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Today, Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and Americans for Tax Fairness released a damning report exposing the deep racial inequities entrenched in the U.S. tax system. The issue brief “How Tax Fairness Can Promote Racial Equity,” written by Color of Change Managing Director Portia Allen-Kyle and Americans for Tax Fairness Executive Director David Kass, exposes the systemic flaws in tax policy that have widened the racial wealth gap and prevented economic mobility for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.
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Gov. Tim Walz (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, File)
In 2020, Minneapolis and St. Paul erupted after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man’s murder sparked a nationwide reckoning over racial discrimination and police misconduct. What the governor did — or failed to do — during and afterward continues to draw sharp criticism from Republicans who say he should have acted sooner to stop the looting and arson.
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The race for control of Congress is as close as ever as lawmakers return to Washington for three weeks, leaving the campaign trail where races have become a seat-by-seat slog. Fewer than two dozen House seats and a handful in the Senate will most likely determine whether Democrats or Republicans will dominate after November. Many of highest-profile races are being waged in Montana, New York, California and beyond. That's far from the presidential battleground states contested by Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris
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Graduates of the University of North Carolina take pictures at the Old Well on campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
Some selective colleges are reporting drops in the number of Black students, but there are other factors affecting the makeup of their incoming classes
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In 2023, cultural architect Eunique Jones Gibson, the creative visionary behind Because of Them We Can and CultureTags, introduced The Happy Hues Co., a brand that’s redefining what it means to celebrate diversity and joy in the world of baby essentials.
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This week, the White House released a comprehensive fact sheet outlining the administration’s bold actions to ensure that every student in the country has access to the resources they need to succeed.
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Sociologist James Loewen used oral histories, census data, and other historical records to identify sundown towns nationwide.
Trump’s decision to hold rallies in these locations is raising alarms, especially given his long history of stirring racial tensions and his open embrace of white supremacist groups.
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Last year, 18-year-old Khalifa Aminu from Kano, Nigeria, began working on an innovative invention: sensory glasses designed to help the visually impaired navigate safely and independently without a walking stick. Though still in development, this creation has the potential to transform how visually impaired people experience their surroundings, Daily News 24 reports.
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In a working paper, Gyesi interviewed 13 African immigrant students in Iowa high schools who come from different cultures and speak different languages. She found that many of them take advanced courses in high school and aspire to go to four-year colleges, busting what research has shown to be stereotypes about African students as academically unmotivated or likely to fail.
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A Healthy Start pamphlet (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
Federal, state and local governments are all trying to reduce maternal mortality rates across the United States and eliminate racial disparities. The federal Healthy Start program funds more than 100 local projects that coordinate care for pregnant women and help meet social needs. California halved its maternal mortality rate through an organization that shares the best ways to treat common causes of maternal death.
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