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The 26th annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit that was set to take place this weekend has been postponed due to the weather and covid concerns. A new date has not yet been announced. The Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit was founded in 1998 by volunteers of the Black & White Reunion

Affirmative action has been a starkly divisive issue, pitting minority groups against each other throughout American history. Many believe that the Supreme Court’s elimination of affirmative action has now further divided minority groups. 

STORY: James Bennett, who is Black and Filipino, is a philosophy major at the University of California at Berkeley.

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

This rich country has the means to abolish poverty.

The grants to are being given to 90 organizations that foster a culture of equity and inclusion in their communities

Listen Live For the first part of the program, Bobby Seale explodes the myth of the armed street gang promulgated by Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover. The Panthers were a group of professional, semi-professional, and college students who formed this anti-segregation, broad-spectrum civil rights movement whose legal use of arms Bobby would substitute for video cameras in 1995. And lastly John A. Powell explores central ideas in his most recent book Racing to Justice, which provides an outline...

WITsend About This Blog A place for women in IT - opinion and debate on how to bring more women into the technology sector. Latest Blog Posts Related Content US court issues Google API with Java ruling Employees express high expectations of IT in world of ‘work from anywhere’ Download Current Issue GUEST BLOG: Neurodiversity Celebration Week takes place in the UK on 15 to 21 March 2021, and World Autism Awareness Week is from 29 March to 4 April 2021. In this contributed blog post...

We know by now (or should if we are paying attention) that the Black American experience is not a monolith. (BlackIllustrations.com) We know by now (or should if we are paying attention) that the Black American experience is not a monolith. Though there are some overarching themes, our individual experience varies widely and has ever since the first Africans were kidnapped and taken to America in 1619. Four Hundred Souls, edited by Ibram X. Kendi (author of  How to Be an Anti...

Support Us COVID case numbers are falling across the country, but recent hate crimes against Asian Americans suggest that anti-Asian bias, which spiked during the pandemic, isn’t on the wane. On January 28, 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally attacked in San Francisco. In early February, an Asian American grandmother was assaulted and robbed in San Jose, one of several hate crimes that took place there just before Lunar New Year. In New York, an assailant slashed a Filipino man in the ...