Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
“California, like other states affected by Public Law 280, have among the highest number of reported missing Indigenous people cases.” How a racist law is causing more missing and murdered ...
The first White people to come to the modern-day State of California were the Spanish people. The area that became California was a part of the Spanish Empire, and after 1821, part of Mexico. [12] While under Spanish and Mexican rule, California's population was a diverse mix of people with White, Mestizo, African and Indigenous ancestry, with ...
Why it's been so hard to kill Article 34, California's 'racist' barrier to affordable housing March 14, 2022 at 6:56 PM An aerial view of Whittier Blvd. and Arizona Ave. in East Los Angeles.
California lawmakers this week passed some of the nation’s most ambitious legislation aimed at atoning for a legacy of racist policies that drove disparities for Black people, from housing to ...
Despite this, racism against Black Americans remains widespread in the U.S., as does socioeconomic inequality between black and white Americans. [a] [2] In 1863, two years prior to emancipation, Black people owned 0.5 percent of the national wealth, while in 2019 it is just over 1.5 percent. [3]
It found that 2,532 civic projects carried out in 992 cities displaced 1 million people, two-thirds of them Black Americans, making that group "five times more likely to be displaced than they ...
Kalra issued a written statement following the Senate’s designation of the Racial Justice Act for All as a two-year bill, regretting that it had not become law in 2021, but that he would "continue to do the hard work to root out racism in our criminal justice system.” [37]