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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 26, 2023
According to a 2023 report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, “no state has an adequate supply of affordable rental housing for the lowest income renters.” And this is impacting households of color at a disproportionate rate.
Blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics are more likely than their white counterparts “to be extremely low-income renters – with incomes at or below the poverty
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Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 25, 2023
March 5 was the last time Bettersten Wade saw her middle child Dexter Wade. On March 14, she called the police to report that her adult son was missing. But she said the Jackson Police Department “told her they’d been unable to find him,” NBC News reports.
In what appears to be a cover-up by the
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FatCamera/Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 25, 2023
We have long known that racism and discrimination are deeply entrenched within the American child welfare system.
The research is clear—according to a 2021 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, Black children had higher Child Protective Services (CPS) encounters than that of other children, and are more than twice as likely than white children to be
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KPRC2 Houston / click2houston.com By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 24, 2023
In the span of two weeks, The Post Oak Hotel, located in the Uptown area of Houston, has been hit with two discrimination lawsuits.
“Although the lawsuits are in reference to separate incidents, they are both accusing the hotel restaurant employees of singling them out for their race and enforcing dress code restrictions that allegedly weren’t applied
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AP Photo/Gerald Herbert By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 24, 2023
On Monday, a “superfog” caused multiple car crashes on Interstate 55, which is located near the city of New Orleans, LA. “At least seven people were killed” leaving “a long stretch of mangled and scorched cars, trucks and tractor-trailers,” the Associated Press reports.
What is a superfog? According to the National Weather Service, it is what happens smoke
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 24, 2023
Imagine: “It’s the year 2050…and racism has ended,” and so posits the newly published book How We Ended Racism: Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation.
In the book, Justin Michael Williams and his co-author Shelly Tygielski divulge a concrete eight-part framework for how we can make this radical idea an actual reality.
“You don’t fix racism,” an excerpt from the book reads, “You don’t
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Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 2, 2023
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated September 26, 2023
On Monday evening, Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter Zoleka Mandela died of cancer in South Africa, surrounded by her family and friends. It was the day before Winnie Mandela’s birthday, who would have been celebrating her 87th birthday.
During her life, the prolific writer, became widely known for her advocacy in the justice and healthcare spaces. Zoleka also lent her voice to road safety campaigns,
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated August 31, 2023
Sha’Carri Richardson won another race Wednesday, this time placing first in the 100m race at the Diamond League Meeting in Zurich.
Richardson, who won with a time of 10.88 seconds, was the only finalist from the Budapest World Championships competing in the race.
Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah was expected to be Richardson’s biggest challenger. Thompson-Herah “is the first woman to win the 100-200m