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Category: Race
No, Sen. Cassidy, Louisiana’s Racial Disparities in Healthcare Aren’t Just a Distraction
April 10, 2020In a recent press briefing, Governor John Bel Edwards shared that African Americans, who only make up 32% of Louisiana’s population, have accounted for 70% of the state’s deaths. He, along with other Louisiana leaders, has recognized this for the wake up call it should be. Yet when asked on NPR’s Morning Edition whether this […]
White Supremacists are Weaponizing the Coronavirus to Target “Nonwhites” and Law Enforcement
March 24, 2020Just when one may think that the silver lining in facing the Coronavirus crisis would be that it’s bringing together Americans of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, etc. to unite against a common external threat, we are seeing the opposite happen among hate groups. According to a report from the Rolling Stone and Yahoo News, white supremacists […]
Report Finds Child Trauma Rates “Higher than Soldiers Returning from War” in New Orleans
January 22, 2020On Tuesday, nearly 100 social workers from across Louisiana gathered to preview a new report from the New Orleans Children & Youth Planning Board (CYPB) titled “Called to Care.” The report, which was ordered by the New Orleans City Council in 2018, examines childhood trauma across the city and provides a path forward towards a […]
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Legacy: Radical Progressivism
January 20, 2020Every January, millions of people around the world pay tribute to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many choose to focus on his famous “I Have a Dream” speech – or at least one portion of it. They focus on the portion, near the end of the speech, where Dr. King speaks of […]
ADL Global Survey Shows Hardcore Antisemitism Remains an International Problem
November 22, 2019On Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a global survey of 18 European countries and found that antisemitism remains a pervasive problem in many areas, and is even on the rise in others. The poll is part of the ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism and was fielded betweeen April and June 2019 in Eastern […]
FBI Report Shows Jews Were Most Targeted in Religion-Based Hate Crimes in 2018
November 13, 2019The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is urging both law enforcement and lawmakers to take action after a new FBI report showed Jews and Jewish institutions were the group most targeted in hate crimes over 2018 – continuing a trend that has been in place since 1991. The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report found […]
Racist Facebook Post Leads to Regional Businessman’s Ousting
November 6, 2019Does social media make it easy for our worst opinions to come out? Facebook acts like a megaphone, making sure anything and everything you post is seen and heard far and wide. But, just imagine if your current boss or future employer finds something on your feed that doesn’t represent your “best” qualities? For Lafayette […]
Senate Intel Committee: No Group Targeted by Russian Intelligence More Than Black Americans
October 22, 2019According to volume two of a report from the Senate Committee on Intelligence regarding the Russian social media campaign to interfere with the 2016 U.S. elections, no group was targeted more than Black Americans. “By far, race and related issues were the preferred target of the information warfare campaign designed to divide the country in […]
Former Ft. Worth Officer Charged With Murder of Atatiana Jefferson
October 15, 2019A former Fort Worth police officer has been arrested and charged with the murder of Atatiana Jefferson. Aaron Dean was booked into the Tarrant County Jail for murder and was originally held on a $200,000 bond, according to the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD). He has since bonded out. According to reports, Dean was one […]
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