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White writing on black chalkboard reads "vote"
By Jessica González-Rojas, Marcela Howell, Sung Yeon Choimorrow  Apr 12, 2019 8:00AM EDT

Election 2020: Ignore Women of Color at Your Own Peril [OP-ED]

The women behind Intersections of Our Lives say that if there’s one thing that can be learned from the last election, it’s that the votes of women of color should not be taken for granted.
Black man stands next to a red car and in front of police officer as he takes a sobriety test at night.
Shani Saxon  Mar 14, 2019 5:16PM EDT

New Report Analyzes Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops

The Stanford Policing Project determined Black and Latinx drivers are pulled over more frequently than White drivers, even with less evidence of wrongdoing.
China's Coal Dependence A Challenge For Climate
Ayana Byrd  Mar 12, 2019 12:22PM EDT

STUDY: White Americans' Consumer Habits Pollute the Air That Black and Latinx People Breathe

Researchers say there is a stark racial difference in who suffers from toxic air and who causes it.
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catherine lizette gonzalez  Jan 23, 2019 2:49PM EST

REPORT: In Wisconsin, Black and Native People Hardest Hit by Probation, Parole

A new report from Columbia University Justice Lab reveals that Black and Native folks in the state are subject to “structural disadvantages that make adhering to the requirements of community corrections more difficult for people of color.”
San Francisco Board Of Supervisors Proposes Putting Soda Tax On Nov. Ballot
Ayana Byrd  Jan 15, 2019 1:51PM EST

REPORT: Companies Target Black and Latinx Youth With Junk Food Ads

The candy, soda and fast food industries disproportionately push their products on kids of color.
Social Media Site Twitter Debuts On The New York Stock Exchange
Ayana Byrd  Dec 19, 2018 11:59AM EST

New Study Confirms That Black Women Are Most Abused Group on Twitter

Amnesty International hopes Twitter will use the findings to make women safer online.
Three women in burgundy shirts sitting next to each other. They each make phone calls on blue telephones mounted on a wall with laminated signs including a plaque that says calls may be subject to recording.
catherine lizette gonzalez  Dec 7, 2018 5:30PM EST

Nearly Half of All U.S. Adults Have a Family Member Who Has Been Incarcerated

A new study finds that mass incarceration has ruinous consequences for the 113 million people in the United States whose family members have spent time in prisons or jails, and people of color are disproportionately impacted.
A street floods as a powerful storm moves across Southern California on February 17, 2017, in Sun Valley, California. After years of severe drought, heavy winter rains came to the state.
Ayana Byrd  Dec 6, 2018 3:54PM EST

ICYMI: Study Says Climate Change Is Serious Threat To Americans' Health

Researchers predict that an estimated 3,000 people will die from high temperatures by 2050, and people of color are more vulnerable than their White counterparts.
Norman Lear, Gloria Calderón Kellett, Mike Royce, Justina Machado, Rita Moreno, Isabella Gomez, Tod Grinnell, Stephen Toblowsky. White men and Latinx women on black stage in front of screen with yellow television show title card
Sameer Rao  Oct 17, 2018 3:51PM EDT

REPORT: TV Refuses to Shake Xenophobic Stereotypes

A new study argues that narrative television still disproportionately portrays immigrants as uneducated criminals.
A plume of exhaust extends from a coal-fired power plant built in New Eagle, Pennsylvania.
Ayana Byrd  Sep 27, 2018 10:47AM EDT

Black and Latinx Families Live, Go to School and Grocery Shop Near Chemical Facilities

New research shows that the health risks—including cancer—multiply for people living at or near the poverty level.
White sign has a red adn blue American flag and the words "vote here" on it
Kenrya Rankin  Sep 13, 2018 3:15PM EDT

People Of Color Are Still Being Locked Out of the Democratic Process

A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reinforces what many already know: the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act made it easier for states to discriminate at the voting booth.
Andrea Navedo in pink dress sits next to Gina Rodriguez in black and white dress on black chairs in front of man in black suit with white shirt and light grey and pink screen
Sameer Rao  Sep 12, 2018 4:20PM EDT

New Study Finds Latinx Women Are Still Underrepresented on TV

A new report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film exposes the dismal state of on-screen representation for women of color.
U.S. gun violence is a human rights crisis, says Amnesty International
Alfonso Serrano  Sep 12, 2018 11:00AM EDT

Under the Gun: U.S. Firearm Violence Is a Human Rights Crisis

A new report from Amnesty International says that gun violence in the United States is a crisis that has an exorbitant toll on communities of color.
Rami Malek in blue suit and dress shirt holding black microphone in front of grey wall
Sameer Rao  Sep 11, 2018 12:51PM EDT

STUDY: MENA Actors Still Overwhelmingly Cast as 'Terrorists & Tyrants'

A new report finds that Hollywood not only disproportionately under-employs thespians of Middle Eastern and North African descent, but also frequently relegates them to dangerously stereotypical roles.
A child walks in his flooded neighborhood on May 4, 2017, in Arnold, Missouri. Towns along the Meramec River braced for the river to crest after days of rainfall in the region.
Ayana Byrd  Aug 22, 2018 2:36PM EDT

STUDY: After Natural Disasters, Whites Accumulate Wealth While People of Color Lose It

There are marked racial differences in the cost of disasters.
Ava DuVernay in white dress and cast of "A Wrinkle in Time" in multicolored dresses and Gayle King in orange sweater and brown patterned skirt on red carpet in front of navy wall
Sameer Rao  Jul 31, 2018 12:59PM EDT

5 Numbers That Prove Hollywood's Ongoing Diversity Woes

USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found little cause for celebration in its latest report on film industry diversity. Here are a few key findings. 
Black people protest outside. Signs include "I am a man," "Blcack lives matter" and "The world is watching."
Kenrya Rankin  Jul 26, 2018 11:27AM EDT

Police Less Likely to Arrest Killers With Black Victims

“There is a straight line between Black people being outraged loudly about police officers being able to shoot and kill people and being able to get away from it and Black people quietly wondering when that homicide in their neighborhood is going to be solved.”
A plume of exhaust extends from a coal-fired power plant built in New Eagle, Pennsylvania.
Ayana Byrd  Jul 17, 2018 1:55PM EDT

Real Estate Agents Encourage People of Color To Live In Polluted Neighborhoods

A new study finds an insidious reason behind the racial imbalance of residents in toxic communities. 
Black woman with brown curly hair looks sad in front of a body of water
Kenrya Rankin  Jun 22, 2018 3:51PM EDT

STUDY: Police Killings of Unarmed Black People Traumatize Black Communities

Co-author Atheendar S. Venkataramani: “It’s really about all the kinds of insidious ways that structural racism can make people sick.”
Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is on the verge of a boom on March 23, 2014, near McKittrick, California.
Ayana Byrd  Jun 20, 2018 1:30PM EDT

STUDY: Pennsylvania's Communities of Color In More Danger From Health Consequences of Fracking

Researchers found a disproportionate number of people of color living near power plants.