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ECATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — On a November afternoon, Mónica Citlalli Díaz left home in a sprawling suburb of Mexico’s capital and headed to the school where she’d been teaching English for years. It seemed an ordinary day, but on this one, she never arrived at work. Her absence was ...
... is among the most ambitious in the nation and in the world, but few who offered public comment were happy with the state's plan for reaching that milestone. https://youtu.be/hfzXz7q5hTI Environmental groups, academics, and people who live in heavily polluted neighborhoods said the plan doesn't do ...
“We view white supremacy as like, you know, somebody’s got the cross in the truck and they’re rolling to your crib to go burn it,” said Bibby, who co-founded the Black Veterans Project, which advocates for racial justice in the armed services. But the cuts are ...
... and discrimination. Because some Sikh Americans are easily identified by their beards and turbans, they have a long history of being targeted by others looking for a scapegoat, reaching as far back as the 1907 riots in Bellingham, Washington, in which a mob of 600 white men attacked and drove ...
... honestly. If we don't reckon with it, we'll keep reproducing it in the next generation and we won't really get to, ‘and justice for all.’ So I think it's important for parents to tell the truth in an age-appropriate way,” Carter said. In order to ...
... for the racial justice efforts that intensified after the police killing of George Floyd last year. Avoiding the conversation will hinder the battle for racial justice because the two are “fully and inextricably linked,” said Ellis P. Monk, Jr., a sociology professor at Harvard University who has been researching colorism ...
... racism was keeping the country from fulfilling its founding promise of “liberty and justice for all.” “It is not just a Black America problem or a people of color problem. it is a problem for every American,” she said. “It is holding our nation back from reaching our full potential.”
... since Masud is not yet in U.S. custody, but it is nonetheless one of the more consequential counterterrorism prosecutions brought by the Trump administration Justice Department. "At long last, this man responsible for killing Americans and many others will be subject to justice for his crimes," Barr said. A ...
... in Alabama. He spent most of his career as a civil rights attorney before retirement.Thompson said in 2018 that Boynton’s life “is a teaching lesson for all of us about how we can make a difference.” “All he wanted was a cheeseburger, and he changed the course of ...
... during the same months in 2020. However, a Democratic political firm released an analysis this month that found that registrations rebounded in June amid protests for racial justice in reaction to a number of killings of Black Americans by police officers. Mercado of the New Florida Majority said “the stakes ...
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