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EPA promised to address environmental racism. Flint is still waiting
By Yvette Cabrera, Jamie Smith, and Grey Moran On November 2, 2023 This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. FLINT — Civil rights law offers a tool for communities of color trying to stop unequal exposure to pollution. Over and over, Flint residents have tried to make…
Attorney General James Highlights Deep Racial Gaps in Homeownership Across New York
AG Report Finds New Yorkers of Color Are Far Less Likely to Own a Home, More Likely to Be Denied Mortgages, and Face Higher Borrowing CostsDisparities Cost Black and Latino Borrowers More Than $200 Million over the Course of Their Mortgages On October 31, 2023 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James released a…
Scholastic will drop policy that makes it easier for school fairs to exclude diverse books
By Associated Press On October 25, 2023 New York — Scholastic Inc. will end a widely criticized policy that made it easier for school book fairs not to sell works with racial, disability and LGBTQ+ themes. The children’s publisher angered many authors and educators this fall when it created a separate package of dozens of…
A Black Texas student suspended for his hairstyle is shifted to an alternative school
By Jonathan Franklin On October 15, 2023 A Black high school student in Texas who was suspended for more than a month for wearing a natural hairstyle was removed from his school on Wednesday and transferred to an alternative school. Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu (a town roughly 30 miles…
Ohio Issue 1: How similar protections changed abortion in a neighboring state
By Sarah Szilagy On October 17, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – With Ohio three weeks away from deciding whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, it follows in the footsteps of other states who asked voters the very same question. Last November, voters in Michigan, California and Vermont approved constitutional measures…
Ohio is about to vote on abortion rights. Misinformation about the proposal is rampant
By The Associated Press On November 2, 2023 As Ohio residents prepare to conclude voting on a constitutional amendment that would guarantee access to abortion in the state, they’re encountering an array of misleading claims over how it could influence abortion care, gender-related health care, parental consent and more. The proposed amendment would give Ohio residents the right to…
Task force created to combat strangulation and rising domestic violence
By Anna Hoffman On October 18, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Domestic violence-related homicides in Columbus have more than tripled this year compared to last year. On Wednesday, city, county and law enforcement leaders came together to announce a new initiative to combat the crisis. They are creating a strangulation task force using a $800,000…
Ohio effort to protect abortion rights in constitution ‘goes way, way too far,’ Gov. DeWine says
By Andrew Mark Miller On October 22, 2023 As Ohio voters prepare to decide on sweeping changes to the state’s abortion laws, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has uncharacteristically jumped into the debate with both feet. DeWine explained to Fox News Digital in an interview this week why a November vote to enshrine abortion access into the state’s…
Ohio’s Supreme Court hears the case that could lead to the return of the state’s six-week abortion ban
By Jo Ingles On September 28, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday that could determine whether the state’s six-week abortion ban will go into effect. At issue is if the doctors and providers who challenged the near total abortion ban in a Hamilton County Common Pleas case had…