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The Joint Center is working closely with several other Black organizations to ensure that the challenges facing Black communities are considered and adequately addressed in COVID-19 policy decisions.

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t affecting all communities the same way. The COVID Racial Data Dashboard helps us track this inequity by publishing topline racial data compared with state demographic data.

Recommendations for Colleges and Universities to Support the Emotional Well-Being and Mental Health of Students of Color

Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in philosophy of ra

Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.

Interviews with 10 women of color shed light on some of the common challenges faced by black women in the workplace, how they cope with those challenges, and how those coping mechanisms affect their chances of long-term success. Many of the women talked about having to code-switch, or embrace the dominant culture at work. Another pattern was what one of the women called “dimming my light,” or dampening aspects of their personality to avoid making colleagues uncomfortable. Zero of the women interviewed regularly worked with other women of color.

No one is only their sex or only their race or only their sexual orientation. Social psychologists are starting to investigate how people of multiple minority groups are perceived.

From police brutality to sexual harassment, the lawyer fights to ensure black women’s experiences are not ignored. So why are her ideas being denounced?

Condemns Reopening Economy As “Reckless” Washington, DC (April 24, 2020) Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued a new demand letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), calling for increased transparency and immediate action in response to COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities and other communities of color.  This letter follows […]

Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations."

Misclassification raises fears of hidden health emergencies in one of the country’s most vulnerable populations

The COVID-19 crisis is hurting us all, but it’s not hurting us all equally. News links on the impact of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous and People of Color and other racialized communities. Regularly updated.

The fight for Black women’s equal pay must address race and gender biases that erode Black women’s wages and undermine their ability to thrive.

On December 20th, Michigan-based family medicine physician Dr. Susan Moore died due to complications from COVID-19. Less than two weeks before her death, Moore shared her experience with racism at the Indiana hospital where she was being treated, showing yet another example of anti-Blackness and medical apartheid.

A half-dozen corrections agencies provide less detail than they did a year ago.

The already large racial wealth gap between white and black American households grew even wider after the Great Recession. Targeted policies are necessary to reverse this deepening divide.

“There is an intersectional dynamic going on that others may perceive both Asians and women and Asian women as easier targets,” one professor said.

The deaths of Layleen Polanco and Tony McDade highlight how Black trans Americans are treated and criminalized.

In this report, poverty rates are summarized by race and Hispanic origin for the United States, each state, and the District of Columbia.

ICE is turning away Arizona lawyers from immigration detention centers if they don’t have their own protective equipment.

Lawmakers, local officials and public health professionals took to Massachusetts' State House's steps. "This is not an Asian-American virus, this is not a Chinese virus."

OAKLAND, Calif. -  Today, the Bay Area Equity Atlas released an analysis of essential workers in the nine-county Bay Area region, finding that Latinx, Black, Filipinx, women of color, and immigrants are disproportionately represented in this workforce. Essential workers — grocery clerks, farmworkers, bus drivers, construction workers, janitors, healthcare workers, delivery drivers, and more —...

Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?

LGBTQ activists have conflicting ideas on how best to observe Pride this year, but all say the protests' missions parallel struggles for LGBTQ rights.

The vice presidential nominee inherits their legacy but also the stubborn resistance to their efforts.

A group of lawmakers in Elizabeth, N.J., authorized plans to build a monument to transgender civil rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. According to Union County officials, this would make Johnson the first transgender person in the country to be honored with a monument.