âPale, Male and Yaleâ: Can The State Department Be Fixed?
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley is the first ever chief diversity and inclusion officer at an agency notorious for discrimination and wrecked by a racist president.
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Updated
May 13, 2021
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley remembers when President Donald Trumpâs first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, promised to make the State Department more diverse. He cited one particular policy: ensuring a minority candidate was considered for all ambassador positions.
âThey may not be ready, but we will know where the talent pool is,â the secretary said at an August 2017 event.
The remark deeply hurt her.
CBP officers blow whistle: Racial profiling a daily thing at border
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Officer says racism at Port Huron-Canada border happens daily: It needs to be exposed Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press © Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press Johnny Lee Grays, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer under the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Thursday, March 18, 2021.
Officer Johnny Grays still fumes about the day he pulled his gun on a driver while the man s children screamed in the back seat, Don t shoot my daddy!
The driver wouldn t turn off his engine or roll down his window as asked at the inspection border station in Port Huron. Then he refused to show his hands, but instead reached in his coat pocket and then the glove box so Grays drew his gun and pointed it at the motorist s head, fearing he was armed.
International Stories You Loved In 2020
at 8:44 am NPR
This past year was like no other. The world suffered deeply from the novel coronavirus and many endured difficult sacrifices. But other news never stopped in 2020.
Tensions escalated with Iran after the U.S. killed a top Iranian general. Britain made an arduous exit from the European Union. China enacted tough new authority over Hong Kong. The racial justice movement in the United States set off solidarity protests in many other countries. And that was just in the first half of the year.
All the while, NPR s far-flung journalists and contributing reporters labored harder than ever to cover the globe as pandemic travel and physical-distancing rules forced them to adapt.
Health workers from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China, share an emotional embrace with their peers from a hospital in Jilin province at the Tianhe Airport. Colleagues who worked on the front lines together bid farewell as Wuhan lifted its coronavirus lockdown in April.
This past year was like no other. The world suffered deeply from the novel coronavirus and many endured difficult sacrifices. But other news never stopped in 2020.
Tensions escalated with Iran after the U.S. killed a top Iranian general. Britain made an arduous exit from the European Union. China enacted tough new authority over Hong Kong. The racial justice movement in the United States set off solidarity protests in many other countries. And that was just in the first half of the year.
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