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How Will Reparations Move Forward In America?

May 12, 2021 by Aidan Taylor

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A bill that would advance the fight for reparations is moving up the legislative ladder in Congress, opening the door for a national conversation about how America will finally address reparations after 400 years of enslavement of African Americans.  Since slavery’s abolishment 150 years ago in the United States, a path to carrying out overdue […]

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With Markle’s Interview, Decades of Colorism Finally Gains Notice

April 13, 2021 by Aidan Taylor

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Aggressive. Ghetto. Welfare Queen. Poverty. Angry. These are just a handful of stereotypes that 50-year-old Memphis-native Olliette Drobot has heard about dark-skinned black women. Since the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle revealed in her March 7 interview with Oprah conversations the royal family had about how dark her son’s skin would be, colorism has been […]

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The Vaccine Race Shows Again The Deep Roots of Inequality

March 13, 2021 by Aidan Taylor

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It took nearly three weeks for East New York, Brooklyn resident Jason Minnis to get his mother-in-law a vaccine appointment in their majority-black neighborhood. Many others aren’t as lucky.  Since the first vaccine rollout late last year, the widening disparity in the vaccination rates among Black communities in New York has only worsened. Part of […]

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