Black workers made up about 267,000 of the 300,000 new unemployment cases this spring, the report says. The current unemployment rate of the demographic sits at 6 percent, nearly twice the rate of White employment — which sits at 3.1 percent.
Read MoreAs a member of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, you'll have the opportunity to participate in a variety of initiatives and activities, including advocacy campaigns, educational programs, and community outreach events. You'll also have access to valuable resources and tools that will help you become a more effective advocate for social justice and equality.
Read MoreLouisville is the city of Muhammad Ali—the greatest human example of using gifts for good. He used his boxing platform to call for change while I’ve used my music platform to call for change. All artists, but especially Louisville artists, have that hometown responsibility. This led me to run for city council, win, and become the youngest legislator in city history. So I’m not just here for my artistry but for my ancestry—continuing our fight for freedom, and music has been the main medium throughout my career.
Read MoreHarvard College and the University of North Carolina (UNC) are two of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States. Every year, tens of thousands of students apply to each school; many fewer are admitted. Both Harvard and UNC employ a highly selective admissions process to make their decisions. Admission to each school can depend on a student’s grades, recommendation letters, or extracurricular involvement. It can also depend on their race. The question presented is whether the admissions systems used by Harvard College and UNC are lawful under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Read MoreThe first time most hip-hop fans heard Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike, was on “Snappin’ & Trappin’,” the sixth track of OutKast’s 2000 multiplatinum masterpiece Stankonia. Mike took the first verse of the song and ended it with the bold proclamation “One mothafuckin’ verse and already it’s a classic,” a line he believed so fervently that he said it twice. It wasn’t totally true—20 years later his delivery and flow still sound a bit callow, and an array of late-’90s influences are prominently on his sleeve: Biggie-style mafioso storytelling, horrorcore shock-rap, and, of course, a healthy dose of the darkly intoxicating, capacious Dirty South school of music that would soon be known to the larger world as trap.
Read More"At the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, we view local reparations programs as an oxymoron because it is unlikely that any of these programs can achieve the goal of compensating American descendants of chattel slavery," she said. "States have enormous budgetary constraints when confronting cash payments, the most materially significant component for repairing past harms anchored in the institution of American slavery."
Read Morehere are two tragedies in The People v. the Klan, CNN’s four-part docuseries premiering on Sunday, April 11. The first is the brutal lynching of 19-year-old Black teen Michael Donald on March 21, 1981, which shattered his family in Mobile, Alabama, and went unsolved for more than 18 months, until it was finally determined that the Ku Klux Klan had been behind it. The second is the fact that this crime didn’t occur in a vacuum but, rather, was part of a long legacy of racial terror—especially in the American south—which continues today in metastasized form, as evidenced by the recent killings of, among others, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
Read MoreAmerican civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968, centre) heading towards Jackson, Mississippi on the March Against Fear, 9th June 1966. The marchers set out after the original, solo marcher, James Meredith was shot and wounded by a white gunman. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Read MoreI am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself - fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for all!
Read MoreThe federal government responded to this free fall with bold and immediate relief. It expanded the time window in which laid-off workers could collect unemployment and, in a rare recognition of the inadequacy of the benefit, added supplementary payments. For four months, unemployed Americans received $600 a week on top of their regular stipend, nearly tripling the average amount of the benefit. (In August 2020 the government reduced the bonuses to $300 a week.)
Read MoreBachman lives in central Virginia, which has recently experienced multiple extreme weather events influenced by climate change. Unusually heavy snow in January 2022 caused power outages and trapped drivers in their cars on highways. Later in the year, intense rainfall led to downed power lines and flooding. And wildfires are becoming increasingly common in the Appalachian region.
Read MoreOne hundred days into 2023, there have been 15 mass killings — shootings in which four or more people were killed, not including the shooter — in the U.S., according to a USA TODAY/Associated Press/Northeastern University database tracking the killings.
Read MoreKC Tenants Power’s 30-page voter guide for the April 4 municipal primary election displays a level of power-building ambition that goes far beyond getting a few allies elected to the city council. The organization pushes candidates to adopt a practice it calls “co-governance,” defined as “the process of consulting with the people most impacted by the issue at hand, ensuring those people are involved in the process every step of the way, amplifying their voices in and out of rooms they are invited into, voting alongside their demands, and giving them recognition, before, during and after, both publicly and directly.”
Read MoreThe original plan was to do a policy-focused effort, likely around a tenants’ bill of rights with a right to counsel in eviction proceedings. But as they talked through these ideas, several of the LTU members reported problems they faced with the CT Group, a Maryland-based private corporation that had a contract with the Louisville Metro Housing Authority, or LMHA, to manage two of the city’s largest public housing sites. LTU members and others were dealing with flooding, mold, rodents and broken lights in parking areas, with little to no response to their outreach to management.
Read MoreOur Festival this year carries the title “Journeys of Faith”. Through a series of panel discussions pairing Jewish and Black pastors and clergy, our Festival sponsors and partners will seek to connect those Louisvillian communities through discussions of faith and life experience. Their goal is to enable a better understanding of one another and achieve connection through a renewed foundation of relationship. Musically the LO will explore the music of Jewish composers Leonard Bernstein and Olga Neuwirth and an important work by Joel Thompson based on the words of African-American writer James Baldwin. American music will welcome two brand new compositions to its ranks from our Creators Corps members, TJ Cole and Tyler Taylor.
Read MoreLouisville Metro Government’s Office of Arts and Creative Industries awarded $250,000 to 16 local arts organizations. The funding comes from the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Rescue Plan sub-granting program. According to a news release from the city, the program aims to help arts organizations as they try to return to semi-normal processes following COVID-19.
Read MoreThe implications of these sleep disparities are far-reaching. The medical world has known for decades that habitually poor sleep increases the risk for heart disease. If more people regularly got the recommended seven to nine hours of restful sleep, experts assert, the incidence of heart disease — the most frequent cause of death in the U.S. — could fall substantially. Earlier this year, the American Heart Association went so far as to add getting a good night’s sleep to its central recommendations for improving cardiovascular health.
Read MoreCouncilman Jecorey Arthur is hosting a virtual call for anyone interested in running for elected office. The call will be Tuesday, January 24th from 6-7 PM ET.
Read MoreIn 2022 we sponsored 66 pieces of legislation in total, 63 of them passed, 2 are still held in committees, and 1 of them failed. A special shout out to the District 4 Legislative Assistant Brianna Wright who opened several hundred constituent cases this year and our staff helper Mikayla Hicks who has been helping with social media. We have a lot of work to do but can't do it without you.
Read More“Keep in mind that the state almost always has the military force at its disposal to crush just about any uprising. This is particularly true since the end of World War I, after which most states acquired tanks, machine guns and other tools that almost no rebel group could match on the battlefield. I found that an uprising is half as likely to succeed if the military intervenes directly and that this far less likely to happen if the uprising remains nonviolent.”
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