Search Results: racial discrimination (223)

Surveillance technology employed during the pandemic has disproportionately targeted people of color, leading to a normalization of both “racial discrimination and inequality,” according to University of Pittsburgh law professor Christian Sundquist.

After a three-year hiatus, the feds are reviving W.E.B. Du Bois grants to fund research into the disproportional impact of the justice system on Black Americans. “Until we gain a firmer grasp on what lies behind these stubborn and pernicious disparities, we are doomed to see them repeated,” writes Amy L. Solomon, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs.

While many Americans view anti-trafficking reform as an altruistic endeavor to combat modern slavery, most interventions aren’t effective, and some are secondarily exploitative―which arguably further stigmatizes and marginalizes already vulnerable victims and survivors, writes a trafficking expert.