Race and Ethnicity – The USA Potato

One particularly surreal aspect of Donald Trump threatening the tax-exempt status of Harvard, one of the nation’s oldest and foremost educational institutions—and excluding it from federal research funding for refusing to heed the administration’s oversight demands—is the fact that even some of the nation’s most hateful and antidemocratic entities qualify as tax-exempt charities. As I […]

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Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History

Reveal / 07/05/2025

President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs throughout the country. Few writers seem better suited to explain this unique moment in America than Nikole Hannah-Jones. A New York Times journalist and Howard University professor, Hannah-Jones has spent years studying and shaping compelling—and at times […]

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Civil Liberties, Donald Trump, Elections, Immigration, More To The Story, Politics, Race, Race and Ethnicity

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Trump Dismantled 30 Years of Environmental Justice in 100 Days

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco / 05/05/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family members in this community who died, often due […]

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Climate Change, Climate Desk, Donald Trump, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Race and Ethnicity

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How Public Schools Became Ground Zero for America’s Culture Wars

Reveal / 30/04/2025

Mike Hixenbaugh first knew things had changed when someone on a four-wheeler started ripping up his lawn after his wife placed a Black Lives Matter sign outside their home on the suburban outskirts of Houston. Hixenbaugh is an award-winning investigative reporter for NBC News. He’s covered wrongdoing within the child welfare system, safety lapses inside […]

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Democrats, Donald Trump, Education, Gender and Sexuality, George Floyd, LGBTQ, More To The Story, Politics, Protests, Race, Race and Ethnicity, Republicans, Reveal Podcast, Ron DeSantis

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In “Cancer Alley,” Black Communities Get All the pollution, But Few of the Jobs

Tristan Baurick / 19/04/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the region’s vast petrochemical industry. A new study led by Tulane University […]

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