New Poll Reveals One in Three Latinos Have Faced Discrimination In The U.S.
New Poll Reveals One in Three Latinos Have Faced Discrimination In The U.S.
National Public Radio (NPR) has been working on a project called “You, Me and Them: Experiencing Discrimination In America.” Partnering alongside the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School […]
An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’
*She’s blunt, but she makes a good point. I like how she uncovers the use of “quality” to discriminate. VL By Marybeth Gasman, Washington Post (5.5 minute read) While giving a […]
Roughly half of Hispanics have experienced discrimination
*Latino millennials say they’ve experienced discrimination more than other age groups. Why do you think that is? (Without disparaging millennials . . .)VL By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Gustavo López, […]
New Report Uncovers Housing Discrimination Against the Latino Community
By National Council of La Raza Every year, there are more than four million incidents of housing discrimination that occur in the United States. Yet these incidents are tremendously underreported, […]
Latino High School Achievement Affected By Discrimination
By Cynthia Thaler, LIN@R While Latino students represent an increasing share of the public school population in the United States, they continue to struggle academically compared with their peers. According to […]
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Friday July 20, 1012 In Arizona, “America’s toughest” sheriff on trial over discrimination claims (Reuters): Arizona’s controversial Joe Arpaio, who calls himself America’s toughest sheriff, went on trial Thursday in a […]
The Racism In The Trayvon Martin Case, Voter ID Is The Same
The recent shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida led me to think more deeply about the issue of race in America today. I’m old enough to have remembered municipal buses […]
How A Florida Law Makes Trayvon Martin’s Death “Reasonable”
By Paul Adams On the 26 of February, a rainy night in Sanford, Florida, Trayvon Martin was walking through his neighborhood to get home to his father after buying Skittles candy […]
A Letter To Geraldo Rivera From A Hoodie-Wearing Black Latina
By Jackeline Stewart Dear Geraldo, A three-piece suit and a tie would not have saved Trayvon Martin’s life. Urging black and Latino parents to “not let their children go out wearing hoodies” and […]
How To Get More Latinos At South By Southwest
The South By Southwest festival in Austin Texas just wrapped up, and as one of the Latino-centric news outlets that covered the conference and its three different components — interactive […]
