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JP Morgan Announces Policy Changes After Battling a Series of Racial Discrimination Allegations
After a couple of years battling complaints of racial discrimination by both customers and bank employees, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has pledged to increase efforts to diversify its workforce and make changes to how eligibility for certain banking products is decided. According to the New York Times, a memo was sent to bank employees on…
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Amazon Employee Says He Was Fired for Staging Walkout to Protest Unsafe Conditions
People should feel safe at work. People who still need to work during a global pandemic especially need to feel and be safe because safety is a basic workplace necessity. But when Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse tried to make that point by staging a walkout, it allegedly led to the firing of…
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Selflessness on the Menu: Detroit Restaurants Use Food to Feed Homeless After Being Forced to Close
In this time of crisis and uncertainty, there is something to be said for people who can maintain the goodness in their hearts. In Detroit, chefs from local restaurants that were forced to close their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic have become shining examples of heroes who wear aprons instead of capes as they…
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LeVar Burton Wants to Give Us a Live-Streamed Version of His Podcast. Legal Issues Present Challenge
If you were a child at any point between 1983 and 2006 and Reading Rainbow wasn’t instrumental in kicking off your educational experience, did you even have a childhood? To some, that question may seem to be mired in hyperbole, but to those of us who were raised on the series, its presenter, LeVar Burton…
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Black Woman Shot to Death by Cops, Cops Outraged That Second Suspect Was Released From Jail
On March 13 in Louisville, Ky., 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was shot to death in what appeared to be a botched police raid as officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department attempted to execute a search warrant at the home of a suspected drug dealer. Now, WDRB.com reports that the union representing LMPD officers is criticizing…
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Study Finds Racial Bias in Voice Recognition Software Used by Largest Tech Companies
A common misconception equates the use of correct English with “talking white.” It’s a false and toxic notion, but that doesn’t necessarily mean “talking white” or “talking black” aren’t actual things. Perhaps it just has more to do with tone and pitch than it does word choice or pronunciation. How easy is it for you…
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Hospitals Face Possibility of Instituting Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders for Patients Infected With Coronavirus
At this point, it should be no secret that the U.S. wasn’t ready to deal with a global pandemic. Between nationwide shortfalls in testing for the coronavirus to a shortage of medical supplies, it has been a mess. Now, these issues are causing medical professionals to consider one of the hardest, most heartbreaking things they’ve…
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Rep. Matt Gaetz Is Big Mad That Howard University Is Getting Stimulus Money. Kamala Harris Calls Him Out
On Wednesday, Congress reached an agreement on a $2 trillion stimulus deal to relieve businesses and individuals affected financially by the coronavirus outbreak, and as usual, certain people are mad at all the wrong things. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican, loyal Trump supporter and all-around loud and wrong white man, took to Twitter after…
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If You Intentionally Spread Coronavirus, You Can Be Charged as a Terrorist
One would think that certain things don’t need to be said. For example, when a virus causes a global pandemic that has already claimed nearly 20,000 lives and threatens countless more, one would think nobody needs to say, “Don’t spread this virus intentionally.” According to Politico, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen warned in a memo…
