Rethinking Policy for Black America
Systemic racism is baked into every aspect of American life. These policies can help dismantle inequities in education, housing, health, policing, and more.
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Last summer,
millions of Americans took to the streets across the country to protest the violence Black Americans have suffered at the hands of police. It sparked what has been called the largest civil rights movement of our time one that saw worldwide demonstrations, new demands placed on lawmakers, and white people and non-Black people of color pledging to speak up against injustice, to no longer turn the other way. It felt like the United States might finally be ready to do the work to be less racist.
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Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the head of Congress’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus, is laser-focused on getting more AAPI representation into government.
Most recently, Chu has pushed back on the lack of AAPI Cabinet Secretaries in the current administration, and the omission of AAPI members in a previous “unity task force” on immigration. While she welcomes cabinet-level appointees Office of Management and Budget director nominee Neera Tanden and US Trade Representative nominee Katherine Tai as well as the historic election of Vice President Kamala Harris, she emphasizes the importance of calling out the gaps that exist, too. (The Biden administration has previously said that it’s committed to building a team that “looks like America” including one of the most diverse cabinets ever.)
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Currently Reading In the Same Breath Review: Nanfu Wang s Disquieting Look at the Early Days of COVID in Wuhan
The director s personal and anecdotal approach to documentary illuminates the pandemic from the ground up.
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Director: Nanfu Wang
With: Runzhen Chen, Mingxing Tao, Yingjun Ding, The Li Zhou Family, Diana Torres, Dawn Kulach, Peien Liu, Wenbing Tao, Yawen Wang, The Wusinski Family, Adam Witt, Nicole Warring.
Now that we’re a year into the pandemic (and have a presidential administration that’s forging a sane response to it), the time feels right for taking stock for looking back, in a big-picture way, at how the crisis unfolded, the ways it was mismanaged, and how we can learn from the vast pileup of mistakes and corruption. Nanfu Wang, the director of the wounding and disturbing Sundance documentary “In the Same Breath,” has made exactly that kind of movie. But Wang, the Chinese-America