Tag: Discrimination
Twitter faces backlash over handling of anti-Semitic posts
LONDON (AP) - Some Twitter users are staging a 48-hour boycott of the platform over its handling of a stream of anti-Semitic comments that...
Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning
BOSTON (AP) - The white Union Army commander sits rigid atop an imposing horse. His Black men, rifles to their shoulders, march resolutely alongside...
Efforts underway in Alaska to remove statues of colonialists
As many in the Lower 48 call for statues of Confederate leaders to be removed amid a national reckoning on race, some Alaska residents...
From police chief to VP? Inside Val Demings’ unlikely path
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Val Demings has already been vice president.In 1972, the future Florida congresswoman was a young Black girl struggling to make...
Efforts underway in Alaska to remove statues of colonialists
As many in the Lower 48 call for statues of Confederate leaders to be removed amid a national reckoning on race, some Alaska residents...
From police chief to VP? Inside Val Demings’ unlikely path
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Val Demings has already been vice president.In 1972, the future Florida congresswoman was a young Black girl struggling to make...
Portland struggles with liberal identity under nation’s gaze
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Images broadcast worldwide of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler getting tear-gassed alongside protesters made him an overnight standard-bearer for the growing...
US Supreme Court denies Nevada church’s appeal of virus rule
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church’s request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a...
US Supreme Court denies Nevada church’s appeal of virus rule
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church’s request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a...
Indians wear road jerseys in home opener to honor minorities
CLEVELAND (AP) - For their delayed home opener, the Indians elected to wear their blue road jerseys with “Cleveland†on the front as a...