systemic racism
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PublishedMarch 18, 2021
Republican lawmaker references lynching during anti-Asian violence hearing
Rep. Chris Roy's comments drew blowback from critics who slammed him for referencing violent rhetoric 2 days after 8 people were killed in a tragedy that has heightened concerns around the surge in attacks against Asian Americans.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2021
Biden and Harris to focus on shootings in visit to Georgia
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris plan to meet with Asian American community leaders in Georgia in the wake of the deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors
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PublishedMarch 18, 2021
The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S.
People of Asian descent have been living in the United States for more than 160 years, and have long been the target of bigotry.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2021
Universities to study racial disparity in arrests in Portland, South Portland
USM’s Cutler Institute and Northeastern’s Institute on Race and Justice will study data from each city to determine whether either police department's law enforcement has been biased against people of color.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2021
160 Confederate symbols removed from public spaces in 2020
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been tracking a movement to take down the monuments since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed several Black parishioners.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat
Assigned to a D.C. police district with the highest concentration of Black residents, poverty and reported crime, Rosa Brooks tells stories of Black citizens with few choices, their Black victims and the police who are caught in the middle.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2021
‘Uncomfortable truth’: The new push for a slavery reparations commission in Congress
Next week the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is set to hear testimony on H.R. 40, named after the government's broken promise to newly freed enslaved people at the end of the Civil War.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2021
Maine Voices: Looking upstream for causes of racial inequality
Instead of focusing only on who needs help, we should also understand why they need it.