Social Issues

Navajo youths attend a town hall event with Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Navajo Nation casino in Flagstaff, Arizona March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec

What might we expect from Native American voters in the upcoming 2022 election?

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Thursday, December 16, 2021

People march past the Minnesota State Capitol during the Reparations Juneteenth Celebration on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, in St Paul, Minnesota, U.S., June 19, 2021. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi

How we repair it: White Americans’ attitudes toward reparations

Ashley V. Reichelmann and Matthew O. Hunt

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

An indigenous elder braids the hair of a child while they await arrest at the US Capitol during a youth-led civil disobedience action against the continued use of fossil fuels, on the fifth and final day of a week of action hosted by People vs. Fossil Fuels. Protesters have two major demands of the Biden Administration; cease approvals of projects for fossil fuel infrastructure and lead a renewable energy transformation. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Separate but unequal: How Tribes, unlike states, face major hurdles to access the most basic public finance tools

Friday, December 3, 2021

Combating racism on social media: 5 key insights on bystander intervention

Melissa Brown, Samantha Elizondo, and Rashawn Ray

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

A Brighton High School senior waits for the graduation ceremony being held at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox for greater safety during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Growing up as a Black Male Student in White Suburbia: What I learned

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election night party at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump didn’t invent racism; racism invented Trump and other elected hopefuls

Friday, November 5, 2021

Members of a NYC homeless advocacy coalition staged a direct action on July 29, 2021 outside City Hall to call out Mayor de Blasios Broken Record on Homelessness. Some participants engaged in an act of civil disobedience, resulting in 9 arrests. The group demand that the Mayor and city agencies act immediately to halt inhumane and poorly executed transfers of single New Yorkers experiencing homelessness from COVID-safe hotels into the unsafe congregate shelter system; stop NYPD street sweeps of people into the shelter system; and for the Mayor to take immediate action on Intro 146, a bill which require the City to pay higher rates in its rental assistance voucher program for homeless New Yorkers, which are currently so low as to be useless for the majority of people who qualify. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

States under time crunch to provide housing assistance: How to fix it

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Signs opposing Critical Race Theory line the entrance to the Loudoun County School Board headquarters, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Reckoning with science, medicine, and scapegoating

Friday, October 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A person receives a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Acres Home Multi-Service Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo

Discrimination in the healthcare system is leading to vaccination hesitancy

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Matt Barreto, Ray Block, Henry Fernandez, and Raymond Foxworth

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

children playing with ball

Six reasons why an expanded Child Tax Credit or child allowance should be part of the US safety net

Melissa S. Kearney

Tuesday, October 12, 2021