#systemic-racism

#systemic-racism

The chatty daytime talk show The View might seem like an unlikely platform for Tim Scott, a senator from South Carolina and a presidential candidate, to get his footing with Republican primary voters, but he saw an opening on Monday and tried to make the most of it.Mr. Scott, the first Black Republican from the South elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, had asked for an audience on the show after a co-host, Joy Behar, said Mr. Scott doesn't get it when he denies the existence of systemic racism, which is why, she said, he is a Republican.

Advocates had feared the Supreme Court would dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act and Native sovereignty at large.The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on November 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C., on a day that the Court heard a case challenging the legality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.Samuel Corum / Getty Images In a somewhat surprising ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), delivering a win to Native American communities by upholding a decades-old law aimed at keeping Native American children from being taken away from their families and tribes.

Andrew Bridgen has formally begun a libel action against Matt Hancock following a row over a tweet.After Mr Bridgen tweeted that the Covid-19 vaccination programme was the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust, the former health secretary described his comments as disgusting and dangerous antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories.

Constituents represented by Andrew Bridgen said he has gone off the rails after he declared his defection to the Reclaim Party.The North West Leicestershire MP confirmed he has become the party's first Parliamentarian at a press conference on Wednesday.He was kicked from the Conservative Party last month.

Call them snowplow parents, lawnmower parents, or helicopter parents - the point is that their care is more mechanical than mothering of fathering.These parents clear a path and remove obstacles so their kids can get ahead without having to avoid or surmount obstacles.Sure, this all comes from a place of love, but it also comes from selfishness and status obsession.

Emergency department visits for firearm injuries in the United States dropped slightly since 2020, but the rate in 2022 was still above pre-pandemic levels.According to a new study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the weekly number of emergency department visits related to firearm injuries began to rise in March 2020 before sharply increasing in May 2020 and remaining high.

The police chief insisted that he nonetheless completely accepts the diagnosis of Baroness Casey's damning report into the Met and there is zero defensiveness here.Sir Mark said he was content to use the word systemic to describe the Met's problems, but that institutional was a political word with an ambiguous range of meanings.

"This is a continuation of a national agenda to whitewash history," said state Sen. Shevrin Jones.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs three education bills on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida on Monday, May 15, 2023.Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post / Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed legislation into law that will defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at Florida's public colleges and allow the state to remove programs, majors and minors that teach "identity politics" or critical race theory.

Students of the New College in Sarasota protested Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis 's (R) Monday signing ceremony of S.B. 266, a law that forbids colleges and universities from spending state or federal funding on programs that promote political or social activism or "diversity, equity, and inclusivity" (DEI).

A row has erupted in France after a rightwing politician insisted that a high school named after the Black US activist Angela Davis should change its name.Valerie Pecresse, who ran for president last year for Nicolas Sarkozy's party, Les Republicains, scoring a humiliating 4.78%, is head of the greater Paris Ile-de-France region.

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own.The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests systemic racism may be shaping obstetric care in the United States.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 22, 2022, in Tampa, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images Three high school students represented by attorney Benjamin Crump are planning to sue Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting a new high school Advanced Placement African-American studies course, the prominent civil rights lawyer said Wednesday.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Child Trends researcher Jennifer Manlove about the significant decline in teenage pregnancies in the United States.AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Teen pregnancies are on the decline across the country.A new analysis by the research group Child Trends shows that among female teens, birth rates have gone down 77% in the past 30 years.

Artist Alberta Whittle has said she hopes her new exhibition will spread a message of hope amid the challenges of tackling racism.The artist, whose free exhibition opens in Edinburgh on Saturday, said she wanted to explore the themes of care and compassion and the importance of community in galvanising change.

The Government official found the Met Police to be riven with racism, sexism and homophobia, in the way it treats its staff and the way it polices Londoners.She also criticised its inability to protect women and children.Baroness Casey said the force must apologise for past mistakes, improve its accountability, and restore front-line policing to the standards people expect.

AUSTIN, Texas  By the end of this week, Austin will have a new mayor and three new city council members.The Austin City Council will convene on Friday at 6 p.m. to hold an inauguration for Mayor-elect Kirk Watson, District 3 Councilmember Jose Velasquez, District 5 Councilmember Ryan Alter and District 9 Councilmember Zohaib "Zo" Qadri.

ALBANY, N.Y.A new report from the inspector general's office has documented significant racial and ethnic disparities in discipline across New York State prisons, finding that over a six-year period, Black inmates were 22 percent more likely to be disciplined than white ones.The report, issued by Inspector General Lucy Lang, comes six years after The New York Times published a 2015 investigation into racial bias in state prisons.

Representatives from a mosque in downtown Hamilton are speaking out after they say a bomb threat was made against the mosque on Friday, calling the incident "disturbing and concerning.""A bomb threat was made to the Ibrahim Jame Mosque in relation to a congregational prayer," said a statement posted on the mosque's Facebook page on Saturday.

The news of the video and its aftermath came ahead of River Valley's game against Roseville Woodcreek High School last Friday.The team forfeited its game on Sept. 17, and the season was then canceled.A high school football team in Northern California was forced to forfeit the remainder of its season after a video showed several players staging a reenactment of a "slave auction," according to district officials.The district and River Valley staff are working on lessons to help the students learn from the situation, Osumi said.