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Barbara Geraghty a member of the Social Equity And Racial Justice Committee in Ashland about voting trends for Black and white women.
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Last week, Arcata High School stood as a beacon of unity as the community gathered to honor the memory of David Josiah Lawson, a promising young man whose life was tragically cut short seven years ago in a fatal stabbing at an off-campus party.
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Richard Rothstein catalogued the actions and abuses of civil rights by government in his 2017 book The Color of Law. He follows that up with a guide to undoing lingering segregation, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law which he co authored with his daughter Leah Rothstein.
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Dr. Brin Williams, trauma surgeon, wants laws to prevent badly injured people. He wrote The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.
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Decades after the 1963 March on Washington, thousands again gathered in the nation's capital to declare that Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy was in jeopardy amid fresh civil rights struggles.
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A discrimination complaint filed by Native American tribes and environmental justice groups alleges that California has failed to protect water quality in the Bay-Delta. The EPA is investigating.
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Nkenge Harmon Johnson is the longtime President and CEO of the Urban League of Portland; she talks about the issues the League is focused upon, and the events coming up.
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California Creative Corps, a vehicle for putting money into the arts all over the state. Rush Sturges, the founder of the project, Paul Robert Wolf Wilson, a Klamath Tribe member and Chief Storyteller, and Danielle Frank, a Hupa Valley Tribe member, Paddle participant, and artist.
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In Western states, the older a water claim, the more secure it is during a drought. Tribes have long been excluded from that system and now, they're pushing for change.
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Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony" is an anthem to American roots. It was written by a foreigner and required white classical musicians to respect Black spirituals and Native American music.
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Climate change disproportionately affects communities of color, the elderly, people with disabilities and low-income households.
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Reports of racial, ethnic and anti-LGBTQ bias increased again in 2022, a new report from Oregon’s Criminal Justice Commission showed.
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Twenty-five years of experimentation under race-neutral admissions policies — and a half-billion dollars later — the University of California system says they still can't meet their diversity goals.
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Western tribes are making a last ditch effort to thwart a large lithium mine in a federal appeals court.