League of Women Voters wants racial equity data for Amherst
A view of Main Street in downtown Amherst on Saturday afternoon, March 14, 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 3/15/2021 7:50:13 PM
AMHERST When the Amherst League of Women Voters formed a task force compiling data about racial equity in town for employment, housing, health, policing and government, its members anticipated identifying trends so the organization could promote social justice goals for the community.
Instead, despite accessing more than a dozen national, state, regional and local information sources on those issues, the task force learned that getting specifics of how well Amherst is promoting and achieving equity is nearly impossible, and that the college student population overwhelms the demographic statistics.
Racial justice
March 15, 2021
The racial justice protests of the summer of 2020 tied to four years of #Resistance, but more precisely to the unresolved Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests of 2014 – 2015 that preceded it. What both BLM movements accomplished was to elevate racial justice as a talking point without altering the distribution of power. Broader questions regarding the nature and purpose of the police were brought to the fore. But these were countered using the same analytical framework that was used to claim racial bias in police killing of citizens. The Progressive social science of the twentieth century successfully instantiated the idea of ‘black criminality’ that served the political purpose of legitimating race-based police repression.
Conservative YouTuber criticised for using racial slur to describe Meghan Markle
11 Mar, 2021 11:04 PM
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CBS had promised Oprah s interview with Harry and Meghan would be a bombshell , and they did not disappoint.
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CBS had promised Oprah s interview with Harry and Meghan would be a bombshell , and they did not disappoint.
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By: Frank Chung
A popular conservative YouTube personality has been criticised for using a racial slur in reference to Meghan Markle.
Steven Crowder was discussing Meghan and Harry s Oprah interview with guests during his Louder With Crowder show on March 9.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made a number of explosive claims in the hour-long sit-down with the daytime TV host – most damaging that an unnamed royal asked how dark their son Archie s skin would be when he was born.
Dive In Festival: how going virtual in 2020 helped D&I
14-03-2021
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The popular Dive In Festival took the decision to go virtual in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organisers found the move enabled them to attract an entirely new audience and boost overall attendance, says Marc McKenna-Coles, 2020 Dive In Festival lead, in his foreword to Intelligent Insurer s Diversity and Inclusion Report 2021.
There is no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to diversity and inclusion (D&I). Every country, every business, and every community has its own D&I challenges. While there have been many points in history where society reflects on these challenges, 2020 presented a real opportunity for change as organisations across the globe began to engage in discussions of racial justice and employee wellbeing.